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Book SynopsisExamines the influence of film noir on visual narrative and technique in global cinematic traditions. This book suggests that the film noir style continues to appeal on such a global scale because no other cinematic form has merged style and genre to effect a vision of the disturbing consequences of modernity.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; The Noir Impulse, Homer B. Pettey; 1. British Noir, James Leach; 2. French Noir 1947-79: From Grunge-Noir to Noir-hilism, Susan Hayward; 3. French Neo-noir: an aesthetic for the Policier, Maureen Turim; 4. Early Japanese Noir, Homer B. Pettey; 5. The Gunman and the Gun: Japanese Film Noir since the late 1950s, David Desser; 6. Darker than Dark: Film Noir in its Asian Contexts, Stephen Teo; 7. Nordic Noir and Neo-Noir: The Human Criminal, Andrew Nestingen; 8. Indian Film Noir, Corey Creekmur; 9. The New Sincerity of Neo-Noir, R. Barton Palmer; 10. Post-noir: getting back to business, Mark Bould; Selected Reading Guide to International Film Noir; Selected Viewing Guide to International Film Noir; Index.
