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Film Noir: A Critical Introduction: Film Genres

Autor Dr Ian Brookes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mar 2017
What is film noir? With its archetypal femme fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of straightforward definition and classification. Students will benefit from an accessible introductory text that is not just an account of what film noir is, but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a disparate group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781780933139
ISBN-10: 1780933134
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 25 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Film Genres

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Accounts for the complexity of the term "film noir" and the difficulties of straightforward definition and classification

Notă biografică

Ian Brookes teaches in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he has taught film noir courses for several years. He is also the editor of Howard Hawks: New Perspectives (2016).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements IntroductionPart 1: What is Film Noir?1. Genre and the Problem of Film Noir2. Visual Style and Narrative Themes3. Genre and GenderPart 2: The History of Film Noir4. Prehistory and the Wartime Period, 1939-19455. The Postwar Period, 1945-19506. The Late Period, 1950-1958Part 3: Case Study: The Veteran Problem and Postwar Film Noir7. The Discourse of Veteran Readjustment8. The Veteran and the Readjustment Narrative9. Conformity, Community, and CitizenshipCoda: The End of Film Noir BibliographyFilmography Index

Recenzii

Film Noir has long been a fascinating, complex cinematic period style. For students interested in the problematic conception of noir as a genre, Ian Brookes surveys critical, theoretical, and historiographic scholarly discourse on noir and its multifaceted nature. Brookes traces conceptions of noir from early pre-noir antecedents to wartime and postwar incarnations of the classic noir cycle, and examines the anxieties of returning veterans.
Film Noir: A Critical Introduction is a thorough survey of the noir genre. Brookes covers critical debates over film noir's meaning and history. This text is an exemplary introduction to the subject that also covers new territory, on "veteran problem" noirs in particular. It is suitable for both course adoption and should be of interest to seasoned noir scholars.