Classic French Noir
Subtitle: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781784539719
Subjects: Film noir; Motion pictures, france; Motion pictures, history
Description: "French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen."--