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More than Night
Film Noir in Its Contexts
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This book is ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of film studies, particularly those interested in cultural criticism and cinematic history.
Arouses memories of black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s - melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. This book discusses these pictures, and also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It also includes a chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.
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"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realise.
It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media.
This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.
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ISBN: 9780520254022
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 January 2008
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 70 b-w photographs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 408
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About the Author
James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His books include Acting in the Cinema, The Magic World of Orson Welles, The Films of Vincente Minnelli, and On Kubrick.
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