American noir film: from the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl
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Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025.
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vi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman"--
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9781538194096, 1538194090
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman"--,Provided by publisher.
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Booker, M. K. (2025). American noir film: from the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Booker, M. Keith. 2025. American Noir Film: From the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction noir film -- Part I. The noir detective film : introduction to noir detective films. 1. The film noir detective : The Maltese Falcon (1941, directed by John Huston) ; 2. The film noir detective : Murder, My Sweet (1944, directed by Edward Dmytryk) ; 3. The neo-noir detective : Chinatown (1974, directed by Roman Polanski) ; 4. The neo-noir detective : Blue Velvet (1986, directed by David Lynch) ; 5. The revisionary noir detective : Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, directed by Carl Franklin) ; 6. The revisionary noir detective : Inherent Vice (2014, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson) ; 7. The revisionary noir detective : Under the Silver Lake (2018, directed by David Robert Mitchell) -- Part II. The noir film lost man : introduction: the noir film lost man. 8. The film noir lost man Detour (1945, directed by Edgar Ulmer) ; 9. The film noir lost man : Out of the Past (1947, directed by Jacques Tourneur) ; 10. The neo-noir lost man : After Dark, My Sweet (1990, directed by James Foley) ; 11. The neo-noir lost man : The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen) ; 12. The revisionary noir lost man : The Killer Inside Me (2010, directed by Michael Winterbottom) ; 13. The revisionary noir lost man : You Were Never Really Here (2017, directed by Lynne Ramsay) ; 14. The revisionary noir lost man : Uncut Gems (2019, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie) -- Part III. Woman in noir film. 15. Women in film noir: Double Indemnity (1944, directed by Billy Wilder) ; 16. Women in film noir : Sunset Boulevard (1950, directed by Billy Wilder) ; 17. Women in neo-noir : Body Heat (1981, directed by Lawrence Kasdan) ; 18. Women in neo-noir : The Last Seduction (1994, directed by James Foley) ; 19. Women in revisionary noir : Basic Instinct (1992, directed by Paul Verhoeven) ; 20. Women in revisionary noir : Gone Girl (2014, directed by David Fincher) ; 21. Women in revisionary noir : Promising Young Woman (2020, directed by Emerald Fennell) -- Conclusion. | |
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