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Film noir / William Luhr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Approaches to Film Genre
- New approaches to film genre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Summary:
- Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements. Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed but remains notoriously ill-definedTraces the historical development of the genre, usefully exploring the relations between the films of the 1940s and 1950s that established the ""noir"" universe and the more recent films in which it has been frequently revivedEmploys a clear and int
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Historical overview
- Critical overview
- Murder my sweet
- Out of the past
- Kiss me deadly
- The long goodbye
- Chinatown
- Seven : continuity with film noir
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-15750-5
- 1-4443-5592-9
- OCLC:
- 778339588
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