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"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s¿melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. In More Than Night, James Naremore discusses these pictures, but he also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. Film noir refers both to an important cinematic legacy and to an idea we have projected onto the past.

 

This lively, wide-ranging cultural history offers an original approach to the subject, as well as new production information and fresh commentary on scores of films, including such classics as Double Indemnity, The Third Man, and Out of the Past, and such "neo noirs" as Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, and Devil in a Blue Dress. Naremore discusses film noir as a term in criticism; as an expression of artistic modernism; as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics in the 1940s; as a market strategy; as an evolving style; as a cinema about races and nationalities; and as an idea that circulates across all the information technologies. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book has valuable things to say not only about film and television, but also about modern literature, the fine arts, and popular culture in general. In a field where much of what has been published is superficial and derivative, Naremore's work is certain to be received as a definitive treatment. (Verlagstext)

 

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: This is where I came in

 

1. The History of any idea

Noir is born: Paris, 1946-1995

Darkness Everywhere

 

2. Modernism and Blood Melodrama: Three Case Studies

Believe in nothing

Sympathy for the devil

The death chamber

 

3. From Dark Films To Black Lists: Censorship And Politics

bourbon with Bourbon Chaser

The snakes are loose

After

 

4. Low Is High: Budgets And Critical Discrimination

B Pictures versus intermediates

Post-B Pictures

 

5. Old Is New: Styles Of Noir

Black and White and Red

Parody, Pastiche, Fashion

 

6. The Other Side Of The Street

Asia

Latin America

Africa

 

7. The Noir Mediascape

 

Notes

Bibliography

Index