Class, crime and international film noir : globalizing America's dark art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broe, Dennis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Global fugitives: outside the law and the cold war "consensus"
  • Une grève, sanglante et poétique (a strike, bloody and poetic): French film noir and the defeat of the Popular Front
  • The revolution that wasn't: black markets, Ressentiment, and survival in postwar British film noir
  • The wintering of the Italian spring: from neorealism to film noir via Verdi
  • Occupy the Zaibatsu: postwar Japanese film noir from democracy to the (re)appearance of the (old) new order
  • Conclusion: Mediterranean noir: sunlight gleaming off a battered .45
  • Appendix
  • International film noir classic period (selected titles).