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17%OFFEdward Dimendberg - Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity - 9780674013469 - V9780674013469
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Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity

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Description for Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity Paperback. Exploring classic examples of film noir such as 'The Asphalt Jungle', 'Double Indemnity' and 'Kiss Me Deadly', alongside many lesser-known works, Dimendberg interweaves film history and urban history while analysing works by Raymond Chandler, Edward Hopper and Siegfried Kracauer. Num Pages: 352 pages, 61 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.

Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism. Edward Dimendberg compellingly demonstrates how film noir is preoccupied with modernity—particularly the urban landscape.

The originality of Dimendberg’s approach lies in his examining these films in tandem with historical developments in architecture, city planning, and modern communications systems. He confirms that noir is not simply a reflection of modernity but a virtual continuation of the spaces of the metropolis. He convincingly ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674013469
SKU
V9780674013469
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About Edward Dimendberg
Edward Dimendberg is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity
Urban transformations are the burden of Edward Dimendberg’s fitfully brilliant study, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity: the passage of a historical city of old neighborhoods, traditional if often menacing public spaces, and anonymous crowds into the postwar suburbs, highways, shopping malls, and industrial landscapes… Dimendberg’s animating insight remarks the coincidence of this radical reorganization in American space and ... Read more

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