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More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts » (2nd Edition)
Authors: James Naremore
ISBN-13: 9780520254022, ISBN-10: 0520254023
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: January 2008
Edition: 2nd Edition
Author Biography: James Naremore
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.
Book Synopsis
"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity
Washington Post Book World
Provides fresh insights.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: This is Where I Came In | 1 | |
| 1 | The History of an Idea | 9 |
| Noir Is Born: Paris, 1946-1959 | 11 | |
| Darkness Everywhere | 27 | |
| 2 | Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies | 40 |
| Believing in Nothing | 48 | |
| Sympathy for the Devil | 63 | |
| The Death Chamber | 81 | |
| 3 | From Dark Films to Black Lists: Censorship and Politics | 96 |
| Bourbon with a Bourbon Chaser | 107 | |
| The Snakes Are Loose | 114 | |
| After 1947 | 123 | |
| 4 | Low is High: Budgets and Critical Discrimination | 136 |
| B Pictures versus Intermediates | 140 | |
| Post-B Pictures | 155 | |
| 5 | Old is New: Styles of Noir | 167 |
| Black and White and Red | 169 | |
| Parody, Pastiche, Fashion | 196 | |
| 6 | The Other Side of the Street | 220 |
| Asia | 225 | |
| Latin America | 229 | |
| Africa | 233 | |
| 7 | The Noir Mediascape | 254 |
| Notes | 279 | |
| Bibliography | 309 | |
| Index | 319 |
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