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In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

Frank Krutnik

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Description:Taking issue with many orthodox views of film noir, this study argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. The author recasts the films within a generic framework & draws on recent historical & theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir & its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers classical Hollywood cinema, debates on genre & the history of the emergence of character in film noir, focusing on the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler & James M. Cain as well as the popularization of Freudian psychoanalysis & the social & cultural upheavals of the '40s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity. To get started finding In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 282

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Publisher: Routledge (NYC/London)

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ISBN: 041502630X

Description: Taking issue with many orthodox views of film noir, this study argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. The author recasts the films within a generic framework & draws on recent historical & theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir & its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers classical Hollywood cinema, debates on genre & the history of the emergence of character in film noir, focusing on the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler & James M. Cain as well as the popularization of Freudian psychoanalysis & the social & cultural upheavals of the '40s.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity. To get started finding In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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