Film noir : a critical introduction /

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Author / Creator:Brookes, Ian, author.
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
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ISBN:9781780933269
1780933266
9781780933139
1780933134
Notes:Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Other form:Online version: Brookes, Ian author. Film noir New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781780933245
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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.
Physical Description:vii, 275 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
ISBN:9781780933269
1780933266
9781780933139
1780933134