French and American Noir [electronic resource] : Dark Crossings /
Rolls, Alistair.author.
Walker, Deborah.author.
A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-221) and index.
Introduction -- Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet -- Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1) -- Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2) -- Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality -- Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange -- Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir -- Americans in Paris -- From honest thief to media sociopath -- Double-crossings : reversing the remake.
A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.
America—Literatures.
Motion pictures and television.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
European literature.
North American Literature.
Screen Studies.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.