Description
Book SynopsisConsider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. This book offers a collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes.
Trade ReviewNominee for Edgar® Award, Best Critical/Biographical category, 2015. A
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015.
"A thrilling example of the possibilities of renewed scholarly attention to the classic noir period. Its broad range of novel topics and uniformly astute analyses reframe and open up the field of film noir study in provocative and insightful ways that herald a new phase in scholarship not only of the genre but of Classic Hollywood itself."--David Greven, author of
Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin"An invaluable resource for anyone interested in film noir. Essential."-
Choice“The essays in
Kiss the Blood off My Hands seek fresh angles on a genre that has attracted so much scholarship that the academic field has its own worn tropes: German Expressionism, post-war ambience, gender politics. Several essays in Robert Miklitch’s edited collection advance the study of film noir by attending to previously neglected aspects of style.”--
Times Literary Supplement
