More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for More Than Night 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 14 January 2008
- Format: Paperback 408 pages
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- Categories: Films, Cinema | Film Theory & Criticism | Literary Studies: General
- ISBN 13: 9780520254022 ISBN 10: 0520254023
- Sales rank: 214,565
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Full description for More Than Night
"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.
