Street with no name : a history of the classic American film noir /

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Author / Creator:Dickos, Andrew, 1952- author.
Imprint:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142915
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ISBN:0813170338
9780813170336
9780813137490
0813137497
1283327481
9781283327480
9786613327482
6613327484
0813122430
9780813122434
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.
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Summary:A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre were found in Germany and France and imported to Hollywood by emigré filmmakers, who developed them and.
Other form:Print version: Dickos, Andrew, 1952- Street with no name. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002 0813122430
Publisher's no.:EB00784991 Recorded Books