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Film Noir (Traditions in American Cinema Eup)
Homer Pettey
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Description for Film Noir (Traditions in American Cinema Eup)
Hardcover. Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media. Editor(s): Pettey, Homer; Palmer, R. Barton. Series: Traditions in World Cinema. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
This book explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media. By employing experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view, film noir's style both creates and comments upon a morally adumbrated world, where the alienating effects of the uncanny, the fetishistic, and the surreal dominate. What drew original audiences to film noir is an immediate recognition ... Read more
This book explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media. By employing experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view, film noir's style both creates and comments upon a morally adumbrated world, where the alienating effects of the uncanny, the fetishistic, and the surreal dominate. What drew original audiences to film noir is an immediate recognition ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Traditions in World Cinema
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748691074
SKU
V9780748691074
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About Homer Pettey
Homer Pettey is Associate Professor of Literature and Film in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program.
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