Film Noir: A Critical Introduction
by Ian Brookes.Published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Published 2017.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1780933134
ISBN-13: 978-1780933139
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Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1780933134
ISBN-13: 978-1780933139
What is film noir? With its archetypal femme
fatale and private eye, its darkly-lit scenes and even darker narratives, the
answer can seem obvious enough. But as Ian Brookes shows in this new study, the
answer is a lot more complex than that. This book is designed to tackle those
complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of
straightforward definition and classification. Students will benefit from an
accessible introductory text that is not just an account of what film noir is,
but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a
disparate group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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