Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia / / Wheeler Winston Dixon.
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 32 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Dream of Return
- 2. The Postwar Bubble
- 3. 1950s Death Trip
- 4. The Flip Side of the 1960s
- 5. The Failure of Culture
- 6. Living in Fear
- Appendix: A Gallery of Classic Noir ‘Heavies’
- Works Cited and Consulted
- Index