Andrew Spicer

Film Noir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 to changes in American society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138174573
• ISBN-10: 1138174572
• Artikelnr.: 45024653

Autorenporträt

Authored by Spicer, Andrew

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Background to Film Noir 2. Conditons of Production and Reception 3.
Noir Style 4. Themes and Narrative Strategies 5. Gender in Film Noir:
Character Types and Performers 6. The Noir Auteur 7. Neo-Noir 1: Modernist
Film Noir 8. Neo-Noir 2: Postmodern Film Noir 9. British Film Noir Further
Reading Bibliography Index