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Title:
American noir film : from the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl / M. Keith Booker.
ISBN:
9781538194096
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Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024.

©2025
Physical Description:
vi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction to noir film -- Part I. The noir detective film : introduction to noir detective films -- 1. The film noir detective : The Maltese Falcon (1941, directed by John Huston) -- 2. The film noir detective : Murder, My Sweet (1944, directed by Edward Dmytryk) -- 3. The neo-noir detective : Chinatown (1974, directed by Roman Polanski) -- 4. The neo-noir detective : Blue Velvet (1986, directed by David Lynch) -- 5. The revisionary noir detective : Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, directed by Carl Franklin) -- 6. The revisionary noir detective : Inherent Vice (2014, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson) -- 7. The revisionary noir detective : Under the Silver Lake (2018, directed by David Robert Mitchell) -- Part II. The noir film lost man : introduction: the noir film lost man. -- 8. The film noir lost man Detour (1945, directed by Edgar Ulmer) -- 9. The film noir lost man : Out of the Past (1947, directed by Jacques Tourneur) -- 10. The neo-noir lost man : After Dark, My Sweet (1990, directed by James Foley) -- 11. The neo-noir lost man : The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen) -- 12. The revisionary noir lost man : The Killer Inside Me (2010, directed by Michael Winterbottom) -- 13. The revisionary noir lost man : You Were Never Really Here (2017, directed by Lynne Ramsay) -- 14. The revisionary noir lost man : Uncut Gems (2019, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie) -- Part III. Woman in noir film. -- 15. Women in film noir: Double Indemnity (1944, directed by Billy Wilder) -- 16. Women in film noir : Sunset Boulevard (1950, directed by Billy Wilder) -- 17. Women in neo-noir : Body Heat (1981, directed by Lawrence Kasdan) -- 18. Women in neo-noir : The Last Seduction (1994, directed by James Foley) -- 19. Women in revisionary noir : Basic Instinct (1992, directed by Paul Verhoeven) -- 20. Women in revisionary noir : Gone Girl (2014, directed by David Fincher) -- 21. Women in revisionary noir : Promising Young Woman (2020, directed by Emerald Fennell) -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman." -- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1430498235
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