Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and
corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism
which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a
bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with
many of the social realities of forties and fifties America. Mean
Streets and Raging Bulls explores how, since its apparent demise in
the late fifties, the noir genre has been revitalized during the
post-studio era. The book is divided into two sections. In the first,
the evolution of film noir is contextualized in relation to both
American cinema's industrial transformation and the post-Depression
history of the United States. In the second, the evolution of neo-noir
and its relation to classic film noir is illustrated by detailed
reference to representative texts including Chinatown (Roman Polanski,
1974), Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese,
1976), Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984), After Hours (Martin
Scorsese, 1985), Sea of Love (Harold Becker, 1989), Resevoir Dogs
(Quentin Tarantino, 1992), and Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak, 1994).
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ISBN
9780585080956
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Scarecrow Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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