Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent “neo-noir” revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II decades. Often formally disruptive and experimental, films including Shock Corridor (1963), Mirage (1965), The 3rd Voice (1960), and Point Blank (1967) evoke controversial issues of the era, deriving dynamic influences amongst exploitation cinema, sensationalistic American B movies, and the European New Wave movement. Whether the focus is on nuclear destruction, mind control, or surveillance, late noir films, above all else, vividly portray the collective fears from the time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:521 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805392804

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Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Lewis and Clark College. He has published work on film, postmodernism, and the author Don DeLillo. He teaches film studies, film adaptation, post-World War II American fiction, and suspense and detective fiction.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Noir Confidential! Exposure and Panic in the Preceding DecadeChapter 2. Beyond Suspicion: The Transitional Moment of Late NoirChapter 3. Clinical-Carceral: Cold War Surveillance and Confinement in Three Entrapment NarrativesChapter 4. From Noir to Pulp: The Perverse Case of The Naked KissChapter 5. Late Noir and the Bomb: Mirage as Intertextual Reflection on Catastrophic TimeChapter 6. (Un)Containment Strategies: A Hyperbolics of SexChapter 7. Shattered Mirror: Multiple Fragments of Late NoirConclusionSelected FilmographyBibliography