[PDF] Roots Of Film Noir eBook

Author : Kevin Grant
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476645817

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Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.

Author : Kevin Grant
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147668748X

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Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered. The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801882180

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Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617751367

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In keeping with the tradition of the Noir series, Boston Noir 2 is made up of the works of several celebrated authors whose work is tied together by a common setting. After the massive success of the first Boston Noir, bestselling author Dennis Lehane is back as curator for another anthology of crime stories set in Boston. The Boston Noir 2 collection features reprints of the classic chilling short stories and novel excerpts that brought the world of noir to its knees. Contributors include Pulitzer winners Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike.

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801882173

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Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107094518

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A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

Author : Mark T. Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2007-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813191812

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From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), the classic film noir is easily recognizable for its unusual lighting, sinister plots, and feeling of paranoia. For critics and fans alike, these films defined an era. The Philosophy of Film Noir explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explore the philosophical underpinnings of classic films such as The Big Sleep (1946), Out of the Past (1947), and Pulp Fiction (1994). They show how existentialism and nihilism dominate the genre as they explore profound themes in a vital area of popular culture.

Author : Andrew Dickos
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2002-06-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813122434

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Traces the genre of film noir back to German and French roots. Describes the developent of the genre in the United States and examines its expression in modern cinema.

Author : Diana Royer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476684197

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American classic films noir, beginning with 1941's The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from the 1970s onward, share certain thematic aspects, stylistic qualities, and cultural contexts. Their concern with politics, their depiction of con artists, and the way their characters are shaped by America's puritanical religious roots show that these films are examples of a unique American genre, even when the films' directors are German emigres with artistic roots in European Expressionism. The films' psychological depth is revealed stylistically through complex narratives, with select directors generating visual poetry as they deal with sex, violence and betrayal. Some films are based on popular novels inspired by true crime cases. A unique approach to film noir scholarship, this book discusses the genre's thematic aspects, cultural contexts and stylistic qualities. For those films based upon novels, in-depth analysis of the fiction is provided alongside the film version, resulting in a fuller, more thorough understanding of the genre.