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ISBN: 0520212940

ISBN13: 9780520212947

More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts

Name: Scholarly Analysis of Film Noir as an Idea, not a Category.
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By James Naremore

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Book Overview

"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s--melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520212940

ISBN13:9780520212947

Release Date:October 1998

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:342 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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Rated 4 stars
Scholarly Analysis of Film Noir as an Idea, not a Category.

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 11, 2005

In his Introduction, author James Naremore proposes an alternative title for his book: "Seven Ways of Looking at Film Noir". That's an accurate description of this book's contents, as each chapter explores a different angle on film noir. But to leave it at that would be misleading. "More Than Night" is a scholarly analysis of "film noir" as an idea formed ex post facto that continues to resonate through contemporary media...

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black-and-white photography and melodramatic danger

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 8, 2000

As James Naremore notes in the introductory chapters to this book, the term "noir" has become, for film crticism and academia in general, as amorphic, uncertain and dangerous a term as the films themselves; like Jane Greer in "Out of the Past," moving in and out of the shadows as she strolls into that Mexican barroom, noir seems to occupy several levels of meaning at once (as stylistic movement, historical marker, theoretical...

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