Frank Krutnik

In a Lonely Street (eBook, ePUB)

Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir and its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers classical Hollywood cinema, debates on genre, and the history of the emergence of character in film noir, focusing on the hard-boiled' crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain as well as the popularisationof Freudian psychoanalysis; and the social and cultural upheavals of the 1940s.

The core of this book however concerns the complex representationof masculinity in the noir tough' thriller, and where and how gender interlocks with questions of genre. Analysing in detail major thrillers like The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past and The Killers , alongside lesser known but nonetheless crucial films as Stranger on the Third Floor, Pitfall and Dead Reckoning Krutnik has produced a provocative and highly readable study of one of Hollywood most perennially fascinating groups of films.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134973170
• Artikelnr.: 38442858

Autorenporträt

Frank Krutnik

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Classical Hollywood, genre, film noir
Chapter 1 Classical Hollywood: film and genre
Chapter 2 Genre and the problem of film noir
Part 2 Film noir: sources and determinants
Chapter 3 'Hard-boiled' crime fiction and film noir
Chapter 4 Film noir and the popularisation of psychoanalysis
Chapter 5 Film noir and America in the 1940s
Part 3 The representation of masculinity in the noir 'tough' thriller
Chapter 6 Masculinity and its discontents
Chapter 7 The 'tough' investigative thriller
Chapter 8 The 'tough' suspense thriller
Chapter 9 The criminal-adventure thriller
Chapter 10 A problem in 'algebra': Dead Reckoning and the regimentation of the masculine