Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (Routledge Film Guidebooks)

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Synopsis
The term "film noir" still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir’s heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre.
Copyright:
2010

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ISBN-13:
9781135263843
Related ISBNs:
9780203869680, 9780415458122, 9780415458122, 9780415458139, 9780415458139
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Jennifer Fay and Justus Nieland
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
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