Description
Book Synopsis Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent “neo-noir” revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II decades. Often formally disruptive and experimental, films including Shock Corridor (1963), Mirage (1965), The 3rd Voice (1960), and Point Blank (1967) evoke controversial issues of the era, deriving dynamic influences amongst exploitation cinema, sensationalistic American B movies, and the European New Wave movement. Whether the focus is on nuclear destruction, mind control, or surveillance, late noir films, above all else, vividly portray the collective fears from the time.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Noir Confidential! Exposure and Panic in the Preceding Decade
Chapter 2. Beyond Suspicion: The Transitional Moment of Late Noir
Chapter 3. Clinical-Carceral: Cold War Surveillance and Confinement in Three Entrapment Narratives
Chapter 4. From Noir to Pulp: The Perverse Case of The Naked Kiss
Chapter 5. Late Noir and the Bomb: Mirage as Intertextual Reflection on Catastrophic Time
Chapter 6. (Un)Containment Strategies: A Hyperbolics of Sex
Chapter 7. Shattered Mirror: Multiple Fragments of Late Noir
Conclusion
Selected Filmography
Bibliography
