Film noir : a critical introduction /
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Author / Creator: | Brookes, Ian, author. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017. ©2017 |
Description: | vii, 275 pages ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Bloomsbury film genres series Bloomsbury film genres series. |
Subject: | Film noir -- History and criticism. Film noir. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10997289 |
Summary: | What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of straightforward definition and classification. Students will benefit from an accessible introductory text that is not just an account of what film noir is, but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a disparate group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s. |
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Physical Description: | vii, 275 pages ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
ISBN: | 9781780933269 1780933266 9781780933139 1780933134 |