James Naremore 
More than Night [EPUB ebook] 
Film Noir in Its Contexts

‘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.

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List of Illustrations

Preface to the 2008 edition

Acknowledgments


Introduction: This Is Where I Came In


1. The History of an Idea

Noir Is Born: Paris, 1946–1959

Darkness Everywhere


2. Modernism and Blood Melodrama:

Three Case Studies

Believing in Nothing

Sympathy for the Devil

The Death Chamber


3. From Dark Films to Black Lists:

Censorship and Politics

Bourbon with a Bourbon Chaser

The Snakes Are Loose

After 1947


4. Low Is High: Budgets and

Critical Discrimination

B Pictures versus Intermediates

Post-B Pictures


5. Old Is New: Styles of Noir

Black and White and Red

Parody, Pastiche, Fashion


6. The Other Side of the Street

Asia

Latin America

Africa


7. The Noir Mediascape


8. Noir in the Twenty-first Century


Legends and Lists

Further Research

More Styles of Noir

Noir Never Dies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Over de auteur

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.