The Noir Thriller
Title | The Noir Thriller PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Horsley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-01-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230280757 |
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
The Noir Thriller
Title | The Noir Thriller PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Horsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
More Than Night
Title | More Than Night PDF eBook |
Author | James Naremore |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2008-01-14 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520254023 |
"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity
The Maltese Touch of Evil
Title | The Maltese Touch of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Scott Clute |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1611680476 |
Part thinking-man's fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this book will force scholars and film lovers alike to view film noir afresh
What is Film Noir?
Title | What is Film Noir? PDF eBook |
Author | William Park |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-09-16 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1611483638 |
What is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.
Neo-noir
Title | Neo-noir PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Schwartz |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780810856769 |
According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later, Alfred Hitchcock ushered in a new era of "Noir" films with the release of his 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. Film scholar Ronald Schwartz examines the most significant representatives of this cinematic style, beginning with Hitchcock's shocker and concluding with Michael Mann's Collateral (2004). Schwartz provides in-depth analyses of over thirty of the best "Neo-Noir" films and explains the qualities and characteristics of the "new noir" style. He also explains how it differs from "Film Noir" of the forties and fifties. As this study reveals, the new style significantly impacted American film after 1960. In this chronological guide, Schwartz examines such landmark films as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Point Blank (1967), The French Connection (1971), Chinatown (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), Body Heat (1981), Blood Simple (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), The Grifters (1990), Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Usual Suspects (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), Memento (2000), and Mystic River (2003). The book also includes an alphabetical filmography, listing over 650 films that in plot, style, or subject matter reflect the diversity of the genre. This reference work will be a valuable resource for film scholars and fans alike who wish to further explore the ever-evolving aspects of "Neo-Noir" cinema.
Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood
Title | Film Noir, American Workers, and Postwar Hollywood PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Broe |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-01-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813059089 |
Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period. By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents labor as a whole. In the 1940s, both radicalized union members and protagonists of noir films were hunted and pursued by the law. Later, as labor unions achieve broad acceptance and respectability, the central noir figure shifts from fugitive criminal to law-abiding cop. Expanding his investigation into the Cold War and post-9/11 America, Broe extends his analysis of the ways film noir is intimately connected to labor history. A brilliant, interdisciplinary examination, this is a work that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.