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Description for Film Noir
Paperback. An overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context. Series: Inside Film. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 466.
Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship ... Read more
Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible informative and stimulating introduction that has a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers.Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Inside Film
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780582437128
SKU
V9780582437128
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Ref
99-1
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