French and American noir : dark crossings

French and American noir : dark crossings / Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker.

There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the...

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Main Authors: Rolls, Alistair, 1971- (Author), Walker-Morrison, Deborah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Film noir > France > History and criticism.
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Noir fiction > History and criticism.
Noir fiction, American > History and criticism.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
American fiction
Film noir
French fiction
Noir fiction
Noir fiction, American
Kriminalroman
France
United States
Frankreich
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fetishistic noir : Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet
  • Liberation noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (1)
  • Allegorical noir : Boris Vian and the série noire (2)
  • Noir strangulation (1) : Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan
  • Noir strangulation (2) : Amélie Nothomb and intertextuality
  • Jazz : classic French film noir as trans-Atlantic exchange
  • Fatal(e) crossings : figures of the feminine in French and American film noir
  • Americans in Paris
  • From honest thief to media sociopath
  • Double-crossings : reversing the remake.

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