Historical Dictionary of Film Noir.
Film noirliterally "black cinema"is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noirfilm, and therefore which films shoul...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010
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| Summary: | Film noirliterally "black cinema"is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noirfilm, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not used in the 1940s or 1950s by the film industry as a production category and therefore its existence and features cannot be established through reference to trade documents. The. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (533 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780810873780 0810873788 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
