Darkness Calls A Critical Investigation of Neo-Noir /
This book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in tales of criminality and moral uncertainty. Neo-noir plots are both familiar and diverse, found in a host of media formats today, and now span the globe. Yet despite its apparent prev...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction: in pursuit of the neo-noir
- 2. Crime, corruption and social critique: a thematic overview of noir
- 3. Conflict and crisis: masculinity and noir
- 4. Fear and fantasy: women in noir
- 5. Noir by any other name?: generic confusion and diffusion
- 6. A lighter shade of noir: differing uses of comedy
- 7. Fatalism vs free will: nihilism and noir.