The philosophy of film noir
By: edited by Mark T. Conard ; foreword by Robert Porfirio.
Contributors: Conard, Mark T., 1965-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813123776
Subjects: Film noir -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nietzsche and the meaning and definition of noir / Mark T. Conard; title: A darker shade: realism in neo-noir / Jason Holt; title: Moral clarity and practical reason in film noir / Aeon J. Skoble; title: Cherchez la femme fatale: the mother of film noir / Read Mercer Schuchardt; title: From Sherlock Holmes to the hard-boiled detective in film noir / Jerold J. Abrams; title: Film noir and the meaning of life / Steven M. Sanders; title: The horizon of disenchantment: film noir, Camus, and the vicissitudes of descent / Alan Woolfolk; title: Symbolism, meaning, and nihilism in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / Mark T. Conard; title: Film noir and the Frankfurt School: America as wasteland in Edgar Ulmer's Detour / Paul A. Cantor; title: Knowledge, morality, and tragedy in The killers and Out of the past / Ian Jarvie; title: Moral man in the dark city: film noir, the postwar religious revival, and The accused / R. Barton Palmer; title: On reason and passion in The Maltese falcon / Deborah Knight; title: Ride the pink horse: money, mischance, murder, and the monads of film noir / Alain Silver.