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Author:

Rolls, Alistair, 1971-

Title:

French and American noir : dark crossings / Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

ix, 229 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Film noir--France--History and criticism.
Film noir--United States--History and criticism.
Noir fiction--History and criticism.
Noir fiction, American--History and criticism.
French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Walker, Deborah, Dr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-221) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet -- Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1) -- Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2) -- Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality -- Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange -- Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir -- Americans in Paris -- From honest thief to media sociopath -- Double-crossings : reversing the remake.

Series:

Crime files series

ISBN:

0230536905 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780230536906 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)237885818

LCCN:

2009042111

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)