Hollywood's dark cinema: the American film noir

Americans have been fantastically preoccupied with rediscovery in recent years. Our rock 'n roll stars are as popular in their sixties as they were in the sixties, penny loafers are au courant, grass is once again the preferred carpet for our beloved ballparks, and scholars and moviegoers alike...

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1. Verfasser: Palmer, R. Barton 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Twayne u.a. 1994
Schriftenreihe:Twayne's filmmaker series
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Zusammenfassung:Americans have been fantastically preoccupied with rediscovery in recent years. Our rock 'n roll stars are as popular in their sixties as they were in the sixties, penny loafers are au courant, grass is once again the preferred carpet for our beloved ballparks, and scholars and moviegoers alike (not to mention the movie industry) have rediscovered the classic Hollywood studio film
Long despised as thoughtless fodder designed strictly for commercial purposes, the studio film is now viewed as among the most interesting and informative of cultural products available. Of all the classic forms of Hollywood cinema, though, perhaps the most intriguing and unusual is the edgy, blistering authentic postwar picture known as film noir
These morbid tales of criminality, fatal attraction, and social failure are now the subject of scholarly writing, international film festivals, and high-ticket Hollywood remakes
Beschreibung:Filmogr. S. 192-197. - Selected bibliogr. S. 198-200
Beschreibung:XI, 206 S. Ill.
ISBN:0805793240
0805793356

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