French and American noir
Subtitle: dark crossings
By: Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker.
Contributors: Walker, Deborah, Dr.
Series: Crime files series; Crime files series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230536906
Subjects: Film noir -- France -- History and criticism; Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism; Noir fiction -- History and criticism; Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet; title: Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1); title: Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2); title: Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan; title: Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality; title: Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange; title: Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir; title: Americans in Paris; title: From honest thief to media sociopath; title: Double-crossings : reversing the remake.