M. Keith Booker

American Noir Film

From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl

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Produktbeschreibung

American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781538194096
• ISBN-10: 1538194090
• Artikelnr.: 70438258

Autorenporträt

M. Keith Booker is the author or editor of over sixty books including Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Tony Soprano's America: Gangsters, Guns, and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), Star Trek : A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and The Coen Brothers' America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). He is professor of English at the University of Arkansas.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION TO NOIR FILM
PART I. NOIR DETECTIVE FILMS
CHAPTER 1. THE FILM NOIR DETECTIVE: Maltese Falcon (1941)
CHAPTER 2. THE FILM NOIR DETECTIVE: Murder, My Sweet (1944)
CHAPTER 3. THE NEO-NOIR DETECTIVE: Chinatown (1974)
CHAPTER 4. THE NEO-NOIR DETECTIVE: Blue Velvet (1986)
CHAPTER 5. THE REVISIONARY NOIR DETECTIVE: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
CHAPTER 6. THE REVISIONARY NOIR DETECTIVE: Inherent Vice (2014)
CHAPTER 7. THE REVISIONARY NOIR DETECTIVE: Under the Silver Lake (2018)
PART II. THE NOIR FILM LOST MAN
CHAPTER 8. THE FILM NOIR LOST MAN: Detour (1945)
CHAPTER 9. THE FILM NOIR LOST MAN: Out of the Past (1947)
CHAPTER 10. THE NEO-NOIR LOST MAN: After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
CHAPTER 11. THE NEO-NOIR LOST MAN: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
CHAPTER 12. THE REVISIONARY NOIR LOST MAN: The Killer Inside Me (2010)
CHAPTER 13. THE REVISIONARY NOIR LOST MAN: You Were Never Really Here
(2017)
CHAPTER 14. THE REVISIONARY NOIR LOST MAN: Uncut Gems (2019)
PART III. WOMAN IN NOIR FILM
CHAPTER 15.WOMEN IN FILM NOIR: Double Indemnity (1944)
CHAPTER 16. WOMEN IN FILM NOIR: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
CHAPTER 17. WOMEN IN NEO-NOIR: Body Heat (1981)
CHAPTER 18. WOMEN IN NEO-NOIR: The Last Seduction (1994)
CHAPTER 19. WOMEN IN REVISIONARY NOIR: Basic Instinct (1992)
CHAPTER 20. WOMEN IN REVISIONARY NOIR: Gone Girl (2014)
CHAPTER 21. WOMEN IN REVISIONARY NOIR: Promising Young Woman (2020)
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR