Film noir
Subtitle: hard-boiled modernity and the cultures of globalization
By: Jennifer Fay and Justus Nieland
Contributors: Nieland, Justus
Series: Routledge film guidebooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415458122; 9780415458139; 9780203869680
Table of contents: title: Preface : down these mean streets, again; title: Film noir and the culture of internationalism. Dislocating James M. Cain's The postman always rings twice; title: Pulp modernism in the 1930s: between the new and the real; title: Noir's displaced persons; title: Poetry and politics in interwar France : the case of Jean Renoir; title: The fatal engines of La Bête humaine; title: French film noir and the decay of the nation; title: Cain in Italy : the decade of translations; title: Luchino Visconti's Ossessione and noir cosmopolitanism; title: Hollywood noir and the postwar culture of occupation. Postwar France and the "invention" of American film noir; title: The Maltese falcon as existential passionplay; title: Hollywood, Americanization, and market empire; title: Germany : occupation noir and the shadow of Weimar; title: Occupied Japan and Kasutori noir; title: From cesspools and slums to far-fetched amusements : Akira Kurosawa, Sam Fuller and Carol Reed; title: The times of film noir. Out of Mexico's past; title: From neorealism-nero to Antonioni's noir modernism; title: Untimely death and Spanish noir under Franco; title: Post-colonial noir : the dark streets of Bombay; title: Perilous developments? : Iranian noir and the Islamic state; title: California dreaming : Chungking express and Wong's dark optimism; title: Critical debates. Noir's ontologies, origins, and critical futures; title: Genre or discourse?; title: How global culture remakes noir; title: Post-post modernism : or, the future is history; title: The future of noir nostalgia : the American friend; title: Noir's others. Noir sexuality and the politics of desire; title: Noir as the refuge of whiteness?; title: The lady from Shanghai, Touch of evil, and noir's exaggerated types; title: Film noir style and the arts of dying. Technologies of noir style; title: Noir style as history; title: Lost voices and other ghosts of noir media; title: Styles of noir cinephilia. Gestures, hats, and contract killers : noir fashion in France; title: Making Asian gangsters modern; title: Ghost dog : love, theft, and the afterlife of cinephilia; title: Fragments of one international noir history.