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Book SynopsisExplores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 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.
