More Than Night: Film Noir (Revised Edition) by James Naremore (.ePUB)
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More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts (Revised and Expanded Edition) by James Naremore
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Overview: Film noir evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black and white movies from the 1940s and 1950s. Melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs and lovers on the run. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts discusses such pictures. It also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than realized. Film noir refers both to an important cinematic legacy and to an idea projected onto the past.
This wide-ranging cultural history offers an original approach to the subject, as well as new production information and commentary on scores of films, including Double Indemnity, The Third Man and Out of the Past and such neo-noirs as Chinatown, Pulp Fiction and Devil in a Blue Dress. James Naremore discusses film noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics in the 1940s, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, as a cinema about race and nationality and as an idea that circulates across all information technologies. This interdisciplinary book has valuable things to say not only about film and television, but also about modern literature, the fine arts and popular culture in general. In a field where much of what is published is superficial and derivative, this work is certain to be received as a definitive treatment.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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