Street with No Name : A History of the Classic American Film Noir.
Title:
Street with No Name : A History of the Classic American Film Noir.
Author:
Dickos, Andrew.
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9780813170336
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1 online resource (324 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- STREET WITH NO NAME -- Title -- Copyright -- To my sister, Anne who must surely remember the times we got ready for bed by preparing to watch His Girl Friday on the late show -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- To Name the Thing-Film Noir as Style, as Genre -- German Expressionism and the Roots of the Film Noir -- Fritz Lang -- Robert Siodmak -- The Inception of the Film Noir in the French Cinema of the 1930s -- The Film Noir in France in the Immediate Postwar Years -- 1. THE NOIR IN AMERICA -- The Noir City -- Archetypes-Protagonists -- Abraham Polonsky -- Jules Dassin -- Nicholas Ray -- Orson Welles -- 2. THE HARD-BOILED FICTION INFLUENCE -- Cornell Woolrich -- The Private Detective -- Humphrey Bogart, Spade, Marlowe, and the Film Noir -- The Gangster Figure and the Noir -- John Huston -- Violence in the Noir -- Samuel Fuller -- Robert Aldrich -- Don Siegel -- Sexuality in the Noir -- Families in the Noir -- Joseph H. Lewis -- 3. WOMEN AS SEEN IN THE FILM NOIR -- Otto Preminger -- 4. NOIR PRODUCTION -- Noir Iconography -- The Use of Voice-Over Narration -- The Flashback Device -- Amnesia as a Storytelling Device -- The B Noir Production -- Documentary Realism in the Noir -- Critical and Popular Reception of the Film Noir -- HUAC and the Blacklist -- Fight Pictures -- Caper Films -- Crime Syndicate Exposes -- The Kefauver Crime Hearings -- Anthony Mann -- Phil Karlson -- 5. THE NOIR INFLUENCE ON THE FRENCH NEW WAVE -- Jean-Pierre Melville -- Epilogue: Comments on the Classic Film Noir and the Neo-Noir -- Appendix: Credits of Selected Films Noirs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre were found in Germany and France and imported to Hollywood by emigré filmmakers, who developed them and allowed a vibrant genre to flourish. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, Samuel Fuller, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Abraham Polonsky, Jules Dassin, Anthony Mann and others. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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