num_pages: 404
description: “ Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer , 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino.” – Washington Post Book World
language: English
title: Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir
titlecomplete: Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir (Limelight)
genres: Film, Noir
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Limelight