Film Noir Contributor(s): Pettey, Homer B. (Editor), Palmer, R. Barton (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0748691073 ISBN-13: 9780748691074 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Film - Reference |
Dewey: 791.436 |
LCCN: 2014501693 |
Series: Traditions in American Cinema |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.19 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-twentieth century popularization and influence on contemporary global media. By employing experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view, film noir's style both creates and comments upon a morally adumbrated world, where the alienating effects of the uncanny, the fetishistic, and the surreal dominate. What drew original audiences to film noir is an immediate recognition of this modern social and psychological reality. Much of the appeal of film noir concerns its commentary on social anxieties, its cynical view of political and capitalist corruption, and its all-too-brutal depictions of American modernity. This book examines the changing, often volatile shifts in representations of masculinity and femininity, as well as the genre's complex relationship with Afro-American culture, observable through noir's musical and sonic experiments.Key features
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