Andre Spicer, Helen Hanson

A Companion to Film Noir (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. * Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences * Features chapters exploring the wider 'noir mediascape' of television, graphic novels and radio * Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas * Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118523759
• Artikelnr.: 52552822

Autorenporträt

Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History at the University of the West of England, UK. His principal research interests lie in film and cultural history, including genre, stardom and constructions of masculinity, British cinema, and the role of producers and screenwriters in film-making. He has published widely on all these topics, including Typical Men (2003) and Sydney Box (2006), and three volumes on film noir: Film Noir (2002), European Film Noir (2007), and the Historical Dictionary of Film Noir (2010). He is currently co-editing a volume about film producers, and writing a study of Sean Connery. Helen Hanson is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests cover adaptation, gender and genre, film history, film style and technology, with a particular focus on the history of Hollywood. She has written articles and chapters on these topics, and has authored Hollywood Heroines: Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film (2007) and co-edited The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts (2010). She also has a forthcoming book on the evolution of sound technology, sound craft and film style in Hollywood cinema from 1931-1950.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xviii
Foreword xix James Naremore Introduction: The Problem of Film Noir 1 Andrew
Spicer Part I Conceptualizing Film Noir 15 1 The Strange Case of Film Noir
17 Robert Porfirio 2 Genre, Hybridity, Heterogeneity: or, the
Noir-SF-Vampire-Zombie-Splatter-Romance-Comedy-Action-Thriller Problem 33
Mark Bould 3 A Wet Emptiness: The Phenomenology of Film Noir 50 Henrik
Gustafsson 4 Cinephilia and Film Noir 67 Corey K. Creekmur Part II Hidden,
Hybrid, and Transmedia Histories and Influences 77 5 Precursors to Film
Noir 79 Wheeler Winston Dixon 6 Crisscrossed? Film Noir and the Politics of
Mobility and Exchange 94 Alastair Phillips 7 Film Noir and Horror 111 Peter
Hutchings 8 Borderings: The Film Noir Semi-Documentary 125 R. Barton Palmer
9 Crime Fiction and Film Noir 142 William Marling 10 Film Noir, American
Painting and Photography: Questions of Influence 158 Tom Ryall Part III
Social, Industrial, and Commercial Contexts 175 11 The Politics of Film
Noir 177 Brian Neve 12 The Black Typewriter: Who Wrote Film Noir? 193 David
Wilt 13 Film Noir and Studio Production Practices 211 Geoff Mayer 14 Film
Noir and Post-Studio Production Practices 229 John Berra 15 Selling Noir:
Stars, Gender, and Genre in Film Noir Posters and Publicity 245 Mary Beth
Haralovich Part IV The Fabric of Film Noir: Style and Performance 265 16
Out of the Shadows: Noir Lighting and Hollywood Cinematography 267 Patrick
Keating 17 The Ambience of Film Noir: Soundscapes, Design, and Mood 284
Helen Hanson 18 In a Lonely Tone: Music in Film Noir 302 David Butler 19
Acting and Performance in Film Noir 318 Donna Peberdy Part V Identities and
Film Noir 335 20 Film Noir and Subjectivity 337 Christophe Gelly 21 Women
in Film Noir 353 Yvonne Tasker 22 "The Corpse on Reprieve": Film Noir's
Cautionary Tales of "Tough Guy" Masculinity 369 Gaylyn Studlar 23 Ethnicity
and Race in American Film Noir 387 Dan Flory 24 The Climb and the Chase:
Film Noir and the Urban Scene - Representations of the City in Three
Classic Noirs 405 Murray Pomerance Part VI Noir in Other Forms 421 25 Radio
Noir in the USA 423 Jesse Schlotterbeck 26 Television Noir 440 Steven
Sanders 27 "It Rhymes with Lust": The Twisted History of Noir Comics 458
James Lyons Part VII New Geographies of Film Noir 477 28 Film Noir in Asia:
Historicizing South Korean Crime Thrillers 479 Nikki J.Y. Lee and Julian
Stringer 29 Bombay Noir 496 Lalitha Gopalan Index 512

Rezensionen

"The twenty-eight essays in this collection represent a landmark in noir criticism. Written by some of the most accomplished veterans in the field, as well as many new and promising voices, these essays are both deeply engaged with previously contested critical territory and agressively turned toward undiscovered and untilled terrain ... This is a collection that will be studied, cited, and, as with all of the most influential film noir criticism, contested for many years to come." (Wide Angle, 1 March 2014)