Film noir : hard-boiled modernity and the cultures of globalization /

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Author / Creator:Fay, Jennifer, author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, [2010]
©2010
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Routledge film guidebooks
Routledge film guidebooks.
Subject:Film noir -- History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Film noir.
Film noir
Film noir.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12011720
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Other authors / contributors:Nieland, Justus, author.
ISBN:9780203869680
0203869680
9780415458122
0415458129
9780415458139
0415458137
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
Description based on print version record
Summary:The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir's emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir's heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre
Other form:Print version: Fay, Jennifer. Film noir. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010 9780415458122
Standard no.:9786612443305