Film noir and the cinema of paranoia /

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Author / Creator:Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
Film noir -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Film noir.
Film noir
Film noir.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Film.
Great Britain.
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11194912
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ISBN:9780748630318
0748630317
9786612087936
6612087935
9781282087934
1282087932
9780748623990
074862399X
9780748624003
0748624007
0748623094
9780748623099
9780813545219
0813545218
9780813545202
081354520X
0748653619
9780748653614
1474467768
9781474467766
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses. The book begins with the return of American soldiers from World War II, 'liberated' from war in the Pacific by the newly created atomic bomb, which will come to rule American consciousness through much of the 1950s and 1960s and then, in a newer, more small-scale way, become a fixture of terrorist hardware in the post-paranoid ear of the 21st century. Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is constructed in six chapters, each highlighting a particular 'raising of the cinematic stakes' in the creation of a completely immersible universe of images. Selling points: Expands the definition of noir to include numerous lesser known works. Deals with Red Scare films of the 1950s in the US. Examines the 'dark side' of the 1960s, or films that questioned the emerging counterculture. Explores such neo-noir films as The Last Seduction (1993), Angel Heart (1987), The Grifters (1990), Red Rock West (1993), The Usual Suspects (1995), Mulholland Drive (2001), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Memento (2000). Details the 'noir' aspects of the cybernetic age, both in online and videogame uses.
Other form:Print version: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950- Film noir and the cinema of paranoia. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748623990 074862399X