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Author:   Homer B. Pettey (Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature, University of Arizona) ,  R. Barton Palmer (Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature, Clemson University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.497kg
ISBN:  

9780748691074

ISBN 10:   0748691073
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; The Noir Turn, Homer B. Pettey; 1. The Cinema of Uncertainty and the Opacity of Information from Louis Feuillade's Crime Serials to Film Noir, Vicki Callahan; 2. Warning Shadows: German Expressionism and American Film Noir, Janet Bergstrom; 3. Hard-boiled Tradition and Film Noir, Homer B. Pettey; 4. Cold War Noir, R. Barton Palmer; 5. Noiring the Pitch: The Conflicted Soundtracks of Out of the Past, The Blue Gardenia, and The Long Goodbye, Krin Gabbard; 6. Split Screen: Sound/Music in The Stranger/Criss Cross, Robert Miklitsch; 7. Gender and Noir, Elisabeth Bronfen; 8. The Subversive Shade of Black in Film Noir, Charles Scruggs; Postscript: A History of Our Writing about Film Noir, Alain Silver and James Ursini; Selected Reading Guide to Film Noir: Book and Book Chapters; Selected Viewing Guide to Film Noir; Index.

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This volume of essays which views film noir as both a global cinematic aesthetic and social/political expression will be invaluable for those new to film noir as well as to established scholars within the field. Comprehensive and helpful guides to viewing and reading round off what is a highly readable collection.--Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, Leicester

Author Information

Homer B. Pettey is Professor Emeritus of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He serves as the founding and general editor for Global Film Directors (Rutgers U.P.), Global Film Studios (Edinburgh U.P.), and International Stars (Edinburgh U.P.). R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University. He is the author, editor, or general editor of many books including Hollywood’s Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (1994), After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality (2006), and A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (2011). He is the series editor for EUP’s traditions in World Cinema, Traditions in American Cinema and International Film Stars series, and he is co-editor of five recent EUP books: Michael Mann, George Cukor, Film Noir, International Noir and The Other Hollywood Renaissance.

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