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artistic modernism
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cinema studies
cinematography
complex term
criminal gang
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evolving style
expanded edition
femme fatale
film appreciation
film criticism
film noir history
golden age of hollywood
hollywood censorship
hollywood politics
linguistics of film noir
marketing strategy
paradoxical term
private eye
Product details
- ISBN 9780520254022
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 realize. 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.
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.
