Film Noir explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film’s most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and looks at modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, Lancaster), many of the best directors of the era (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, Welles) and this book is an indispensible guide to this popular genre.
Table of Content
A Note on Terminology
1. On Dangerous Ground: Introducing Film Noir
2. The Set-Up: Fabricating Film Noir
3. Out of the Past: The Prehistory of Film Noir
4. Dark Passage: The Main Cycle of Film Noir
5. Against All Odds, or, Out of the Past-Again: Neo-Noir
Bilbliography
Filmography
About the author
Mark Bould is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of the West of England.
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