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French and American Noir: Dark Crossings: Crime Files

Autor Alistair Rolls, Deborah Walker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 aug 2009
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230536906
ISBN-10: 0230536905
Pagini: 229
Ilustrații: IX, 229 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:2009
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Crime Files

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet Liberation Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (1) Allegorical Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (2) Noir Strangulation (1): Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan Noir Strangulation (2): Amélie Nothomb and Intertextuality Jazz: Classic French Film Noir as Trans-Atlantic Exchange Fatal(e) Crossings: Figures of the Feminine in French and American Film Noir Americans in Paris From Honest Thief to Media Sociopath Double-Crossings: Reversing the Remake Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

ALISTAIR ROLLS is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he teaches French. His research is in the area of twentieth-century French literature, with particular emphasis on the immediate post-war era. He has published works on Boris Vian, Jean-Paul Sartre and French detective fiction.

DEBORAH WALKER is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research is in French cinema and the translation of indigenous Pacific literatures. Current projects include a book-length study of the films of Alain Resnais and another on the figure of the femme fatale in French and American film noir.