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More than night: film noir in its contexts

By James , Naremore

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780520254022, 0520212940, 9780520212930, 0520212932, 9780520212947, 0520254023, 9780520934450, 0520934458
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5020176 bytes)
Edition
Updated and expanded ed
Pages
384\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.

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