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02680aam a2200361 i 4500 001 CFE46EFE00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160913s2017 ilua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016026159 020 $a 0252040686 020 $a 9780252040689 020 $a 0252082192 020 $a 9780252082191 035 $a (OCoLC)968202275 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SPI $d PIT $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PN1995.9 F54 M545 2017 100 1 $a Miklitsch, Robert, $d 1953- $e author. 245 14 $a The red and the black : $b American film noir in the 1950s / $c Robert Miklitsch. 264 1 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xx, 284 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-271) and index. 520 $a "Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets and alleyways of cultural history, The Red and the Black proposes that the received rise-and-fall narrative about the genre radically undervalues the formal and thematic complexity of '50s noir and the dynamic segue it effected between the spectacular expressionism of '40s noir and early, modernist neo-noir. Mixing scholarship with a fan's devotion to the crooked roads of critique, Miklitsch autopsies marquee films like D.O.A., Niagara, and Kiss Me Deadly plus a number of lesser-known classics. Throughout, he addresses the social and technological factors that dealt deuce after deuce to the genre--its celebrated style threatened by new media and technologies such as TV and 3-D, color and widescreen, its born losers replaced like zombies by All-American heroes, the nation rocked by the red menace and nightmares of nuclear annihilation. But against all odds, the author argues, inventive filmmakers continued to make formally daring and socially compelling pictures that remain surprisingly, startlingly alive. Cutting-edge and entertaining, The Red and the Black reconsiders a lost period in the history of American movies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Film noir $z United States $x History and criticism. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- author. $t Red and the black $d Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016 $z 9780252099120 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012613.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006103321.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171228034741.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CFE46EFE00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search