Voices in the dark
Subtitle: the narrative patterns of film noir
By: J.P. Telotte.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Film noir
Description: From the Back Cover: The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and, in doing so, created unique narrative structures in order to speak of that darkness. J.P. Telotte's in-depth discussion of classic films noir-including The Lady from Shanghai, The Lady in the Lake, Dark Passage, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, and Murder, My Sweet-draws on the work of Michel Foucault to examine four dominant noir narrative strategies.
Notes: Filmography: p. [224]-235.
Bibliography: p. [236]-242.
"An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes index.