Fatalism in American film noir
Subtitle: some cinematic philosophy
By: Robert B. Pippin
Series: Page-Barbour lectures for 2010
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780813931890; 9780813932019
Subjects: Film noir; Fate and fatalism in motion pictures; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-126) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past; title: "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai; title: Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street; title: "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?": concluding remarks.