Full Read and Download Reference eBook
French Film Noir Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of French Film Noir book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Robin Buss
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9780714530369
Crime and punishment on the dark side of French society, as reflected in the silver screen.
Author : Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1786735180
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
Author : Robin Buss
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Crime and punishment on the dark side of French society, as reflected in the silver screen.
Author : Raymond Borde
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780872864122
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
Author : Tom Politis
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Film noir
ISBN : 9780908007011
Author : John Grant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1493081659
Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, double-crossers, femmes fatales, and, of course, losers who find themselves down on their luck yet again, film noir is a perennially popular cinematic genre. This extensive encyclopedia describes movies from noir's earliest days – and even before, looking at some of noir's ancestors in US and European cinema – as well as noir's more recent offshoots, from neonoirs to erotic thrillers. Entries are arranged alphabetically, covering movies from all over the world – from every continent save Antarctica – with briefer details provided for several hundred additional movies within those entries. A copious appendix contains filmographies of prominent directors, actors, and writers. With coverage of blockbusters and program fillers from Going Straight (US 1916) to Broken City (US 2013) via Nora Inu (Japan 1949), O Anthropos tou Trainou (Greece 1958), El Less Wal Kilab (Egypt 1962), Reportaje a la Muerte (Peru 1993), Zift (Bulgaria 2008), and thousands more, A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir is an engrossing and essential reference work that should be on the shelves of every cinephile.
Author : Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857716484
"Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. Famed for its extended dialog free robbery sequence, it is both a classic French film noir and one of the greatest, most influential crime films. In this lively companion to the film, Alastair Phillips reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir and argues that his seminal contribution to the regeneration of the thriller in post war France therefore uniquely complicated relations between French genre cinema and American mass culture. Phillips also examines the film's innovative narrative construction and use of sound, its performance style and mise-en-scene, and discusses the film's legacy, showing how even today, the term 'Rififi' remains a byword for both criminal glamor and the enduring virtues of French popular classical film making.
Author : Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526141361
European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an authoritative understanding of an important aspect of European cinema and of film noir itself, for too long considered as a solely American form. The Introduction reviews the problems of defining film noir, its key characteristics and discusses its significance to the development of European film, the relationship of specific national films noirs to each other, to American noir and to historical and social change. Eight chapters then discuss film noir in France, Germany, Britain and Spain, analysing both earlier developments and the evolution of neo-noir through to the present. A further chapter explores film noir in Italian cinema where its presence is not so well defined. Each piece provides a critical overview of the most significant films in relation to their industrial and social contexts. European Film Noir is an important contribution to the study of European cinema that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.
Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230244823
A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.
Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0415307821
This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.