Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0252060563
ISBN 13
9780252060564
Category
Film Criticism
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
272
Subject
Film noir; Film noir-- History and criticism
Abstract
The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and, in doing so, created unique narrative structures in order to speak of that darkness. J.P. Telotte's in-depth discussion of classic films noir-including The Lady from Shanghai, The Lady in the Lake, Dark Passage, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, and Murder, My Sweet-draws on the work of Michel Foucault to examine four dominant noir narrative strategies.
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Contents
Acknowledgments -- Noir narration -- Double indemnity of Noir discourse -- Narration, desire, and The Lady from Shanghai -- Tangled networks and wrong numbers -- Effacement and subjectivity: Murder, my sweet's troubled vision -- Real thing is something else: truth and subjectivity in The lady in the lake -- Seeing in a Dark passage -- Transparent reality of the documentary Noir -- Evolving truth of the documentary Noir -- Film Noir and the dangers of discourse -- Talk and trouble: Kiss me deadly's apocalyptic discourse -- Conclusion: Noir's dark voice -- Appendix: Noir filmograpy -- Bibliography -- Index.
Acknowledgments -- Noir narration -- Double indemnity of Noir discourse -- Narration, desire, and The Lady from Shanghai -- Tangled networks and wrong numbers -- Effacement and subjectivity: Murder, my sweet's troubled vision -- Real thing is something else: truth and subjectivity in The lady in the lake -- Seeing in a Dark passage -- Transparent reality of the documentary Noir -- Evolving truth of the documentary Noir -- Film Noir and the dangers of discourse -- Talk and trouble: Kiss me deadly's apocalyptic discourse -- Conclusion: Noir's dark voice -- Appendix: Noir filmograpy -- Bibliography -- Index.
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