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More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts Paperback - 2008

by James Naremore


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"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s-melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.

First line

It has always been easier to recognize a film noir than to define the term.

From the rear cover

"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."--Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity

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  • Title More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
  • Author James Naremore
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, BERKELEY, CA
  • Date 2008-01-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520254022 / 0520254023
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of Communication and Culture, English, and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His books include Acting in the Cinema, The Magic World of Orson Welles, The Films of Vincente Minnelli, and On Kubrick.
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