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More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts

By James Naremore

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520934450
DOI
10.1525/9780520934450
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6361395 bytes)
Pages
408\403
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:12:15

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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