Overview
- Offers close, detailed readings of well-known noirs, taking the full measure of their formal and stylistic achievements above and beyond their enactment of some pre-established understanding of what it means--formally or ideologically--to be a “film noir”
- Looks at noir in the popular imagination, as a fetish object for both online cinephile communities and a point of reference for decidedly non-cinephile media objects
- Expands upon and challenges existing academic discourse surrounding noir, refusing to “flatten” the films under consideration into a single, homogenous text
Part of the book series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television (CRFT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Paradigmatic and Conventional
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Noir and History
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
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About this book
Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant distinctions and differences between individual approaches, Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood argues for the importance of staying attuned the varied and variegated formal, aesthetic and thematic strategies at work in individual films. By focusing on these strategies, the book invites readers to consider anew the enabling possibilities of Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era.
Reviews
“While Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood should be of special interest to scholars of film noir, the book also proves to be a meaningful addition to the broader field of film and media studies.” (Heather Duerre Humann, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Vol. 48 (3), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nathaniel Deyo is a lecturer in the Composition Program at the University of Miami, Florida, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood
Authors: Nathaniel Deyo
Series Title: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37058-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37057-2Published: 24 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37060-2Published: 24 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37058-9Published: 23 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6133
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6141
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Close Reading, Genre, American Cinema and TV