More than Night by James Naremore
"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and 1950s -melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. In "More Than Night", James Naremore discusses these pictures, but he also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. Film noir refers both to an important cinematic legacy and to an idea we have projected onto the past. This lively, wide-ranging cultural history offers an original approach to the subject, as well as new production information and fresh commentary on scores of films, including such classics as "Double Indemnity", "The Third Man", and "Out of the Past", and such "neo noirs" as "Chinatown", "Pulp Fiction", and "Devil in a Blue Dress".Naremore discusses film noir as a term in criticism; as an expression of artistic modernism; as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics in the 1940s; as a market strategy; as an evolving style; as a cinema about races and nationalities; and as an idea that circulates across all the information technologies. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book has valuable things to say not only about film and television, but also about modern literature, the fine arts, and popular culture in general. In a field where much of what has been published is superficial and derivative, Naremore's work is certain to be received as a definitive treatment.
James Naremore is Chancellors' Professor of English, Communication and Culture, and Film Studies at Indiana University. His books include Acting in the Cinema (California, 1988), The Films of Vincente Minnelli (1994), and The Magic World of Orson Welles (1990).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520212947 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520212940 |
| Title | More than Night |
| Author | James Naremore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1998-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 342 |
| Prizes | Winner of Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 1999 |
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