More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
by James Naremore.
by James Naremore.
First published 1998.
Published by University of California Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0520254023
ISBN-13: 978-0520254022
Description:
Published by University of California Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0520254022
"Film noir" evokes memories of
stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s―melodramas
about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run.
James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows
that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It
treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as
a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an
evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new
and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film
noir in the twenty-first century.