Edition |
First limelight edition. |
Description |
vii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
"Murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle" : Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) / James A. Paris -- Fate seeks the loser : Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945) / Glenn Erickson -- "How you fixed for red points?" : anecdote and the World War II home front in The big sleep (1946) / Kevin Hagopian -- "Lounge time" reconsidered : spatial discontinuity and temporal contingency in Out of the past (1947) / R. Barton Palmer -- The unsuspected (1947) and the noir sequence : realism, expressionism, style / Robert Porfirio -- Gun crazy (1950) / Gary Johnson -- Violently happy : Gun crazy (1950) / Adrian Martin -- The war of the sexes : men in film noir and D.O.A. (1950) / Beverley Carter -- The big night (1951) : a naturalist Bildungsroman / Tony Williams -- Kiss me deadly (1955) : composition and meaning / Michael E. Grost -- Covert narrative strategies to contain and punish women in The big heat (1953) and The big combo (1955) / Grant Tracey -- Touch of evil (1958) and the end of the noir cycle / Stephen B. Armstrong -- Voices from the deep : film noir as psychodrama / J.P. Telotte -- Manufacturing heroines : gothic victims and working women in classic noir films / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- The noir style / Nicolas Saada -- The noir-horror of Cat people (1942) / Eric Somer -- The rise and fall of the war noir / Daniel M. Hodges -- The politics of crime and the crime of politics : post-war noir, the liberal consensus and the Hollywood left / Reynold Humphries -- Noir westerns / James Ursini -- Rancho notorious (1952) : noir western in color / Robin Wood -- The noir title sequence / Robert Porfirio -- It's deja vous all over again : Double idemnity resonates with Generation X / Ginny Schwartz -- Through the past darkly : noir remakes of the 1980s / Constantine Verevis. |
Subject |
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Added Author |
Silver, Alain, 1947-
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Ursini, James.
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ISBN |
0879103051 paperback |
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9780879103057 paperback |
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