French Film Noir
Title | French Film Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Buss |
Publisher | Marion Boyars Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Film noir |
ISBN | 9780714530369 |
Crime and punishment on the dark side of French society, as reflected in the silver screen.
Classic French Noir
Title | Classic French Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Walker-Morrison |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1786735180 |
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
French Film Noir
Title | French Film Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Buss |
Publisher | Marion Boyars Publishers |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Crime and punishment on the dark side of French society, as reflected in the silver screen.
A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)
Title | A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Borde |
Publisher | City Lights Books |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780872864122 |
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
French Film Noir
Title | French Film Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Politis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Film noir |
ISBN | 9780908007011 |
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Title | A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir PDF eBook |
Author | John Grant |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 2023-09-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1493081659 |
Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, double-crossers, femmes fatales, and, of course, losers who find themselves down on their luck yet again, film noir is a perennially popular cinematic genre. This extensive encyclopedia describes movies from noir's earliest days – and even before, looking at some of noir's ancestors in US and European cinema – as well as noir's more recent offshoots, from neonoirs to erotic thrillers. Entries are arranged alphabetically, covering movies from all over the world – from every continent save Antarctica – with briefer details provided for several hundred additional movies within those entries. A copious appendix contains filmographies of prominent directors, actors, and writers. With coverage of blockbusters and program fillers from Going Straight (US 1916) to Broken City (US 2013) via Nora Inu (Japan 1949), O Anthropos tou Trainou (Greece 1958), El Less Wal Kilab (Egypt 1962), Reportaje a la Muerte (Peru 1993), Zift (Bulgaria 2008), and thousands more, A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir is an engrossing and essential reference work that should be on the shelves of every cinephile.
Rififi
Title | Rififi PDF eBook |
Author | Alastair Phillips |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2009-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857716484 |
"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative construction and use of sound, its performance style and mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even today, the term 'Rififi' remains a byword for both criminal glamor and the enduring virtues of French popular classical film making.