Research Catalog
Film noir
- Title
- Film noir / William Luhr.
- Author
- Luhr, William.
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 232 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Film noir" refers to a particular cinematic style: a way of lighting, of positioning and moving the camera, the use of an introspective, voice-over narration, reliance on flashbacks that drive the narrative, and a choice of settings: usually a seedy, urban landscape, a world gone wrong.
- Series Statement
- New approaches to film genre
- Uniform Title
- New approaches to film genre.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Historical overview -- Critical overview -- Murder my sweet -- Out of the past -- Kiss me deadly -- The long goodbye -- Chinatown -- Seven : continuity with film noir -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- MFL 12-1894
- ISBN
- 9781405145947 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1405145943 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9781405145954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1405145951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011041410
- OCLC
- 191811136
- Author
- Luhr, William.
- Title
- Film noir / William Luhr.
- Imprint
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Series
- New approaches to film genreNew approaches to film genre.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 12-1894