European Cinemas in the Television Age
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: March 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780748623099
Subjects: Films, cinema; Social Science; Sociology; Europe; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Media Studies; Social Science / Media Studies
Description: This book provides an overview of twentieth- and twenty-first-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. It demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later video cassettes, and the Internet, to create, by the early twenty-first century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses.