Film noir, American painting and photography : questions of influence / Tom Ryall -- Introduction : the problem of film noir / Andrew Spicer -- Part III. Social, industrial, and commerical contexts -- The strange case of film noir / Robert Porfirio -- Genre, hybridity, heterogeneity : or, the noir-SF-vampire-zombie-splatter-romance-comedy-action-thriller problem / Mark Bould -- A wet emptiness : the phenomenology of film noir / Henrik Gustafsson -- Cinephilia and film noir / Corey K. Creekmur -- Part II. Hidden, hybrid, and transmedia histories and influences -- Precursors to film noir / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Crisscrossed? : film noir and the politics of mobility and exhange / Alastair Phillips -- Film noir and horror / Peter Hutchings -- Borderings : the film noir semi-documentary / R. Barton Palmer -- Crime fiction and film noir / William Marling -- Film noir, American painting and photography : questions of influence / Tom Ryall -- Part III. Social, industrial, and commerical contexts -- Ethinicity and race in American film noir / Dan Flory -- The black typewriter : who wrote film noir? / David Wilt -- Film noir and studio production practices / Geoff Mayer -- Film noir and post-studio production practices / John Berra -- Selling noir : stars, gender, and genre in film noir posters and publicity / Mary Beth Haralovich -- Part V. Identities and film noir -- Out of the shadows : noir lighting and Hollywood cinematography / Patrick Keating -- The ambience of film noir : soundscapes, design, and mood / Halen Hanson -- In a lonely tone : music in film noir / David Butler -- Acting and performance in film noir / Donna Peberdy -- Part V. Identities and film noir -- Film noir and subjectivity / Christophe Gelly -- Women in film noir / Yvonne Tasker -- "The corpse on reprieve" : film noir's cautionary tales of "tough guy" masculinity / Gaylyn Studlar -- Ethinicity and race in American film noir / Dan Flory -- Index. Lalitha Gopalan -- Part VII. New geographies of film noir -- Radio noir in the USA / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- Television noir / Steven Sanders -- "It rhymes with lust" : the twisted history of noir comics / James Lyons -- Part VII. New geographies of film noir -- Film noir in Asia : historicizing South Korean crime thrillers / Nikki J.Y. Lee adn Julian Stringer -- Bombay Noir / Lalitha Gopalan -- Index.
Summary:
"An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences Features chapters exploring the wider 'noir mediascape' of television, graphic novels and radio Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars "-- Provided by publisher. "Film noir fascinates cineastes like no other genre. This authoritative companion features the work of a highly distinguished group of international scholars, adopting a thematic approach that examines key topics rather than focusing on individual titles or auteurs. It reflects the expanding purview of analysts by including novel subjects such as neo-noir, international noir movies, and 'noir' as expressed in other forms such as comics, graphic novels, posters, radio and television. Informed by cutting-edge scholarship, this collection extends and deepens the developing understanding of this enduringly captivating mode of cultural expression"-- Provided by publisher.
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