Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization (Routledge Film Guidebooks)

the Term Film Noir Still Conjures Images Of A Uniquely American Malaise: Hard-boiled Detectives, Fatal Women, And The Shadowy Hells Of Urban Life. But From Its Beginnings, Film Noir Has Been An International Phenomenon, And Its Stylistic Icons Have Migrated Across The Complex Geo-political Terrain Of World Cinema. This Book Traces Film Noir’s Emergent Connection To European Cinema, Its Movement Within A Cosmopolitan Culture Of Literary And Cinematic Translation, And Its Postwar Consolidation In The Us, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, And Latin America. the Authors Examine How Film Noir Crosses National Boundaries, Speaks To Diverse International Audiences, And Dramatizes Local Crimes And The Crises Of Local Spaces In The Face Of Global Phenomena Like World-wide Depression, War, Political Occupation, Economic And Cultural Modernization, Decolonization, And Migration. This Fresh Study Of Film Noir And Global Culture Also Discusses Film Noir’s Heterogeneous Style And Revises Important Scholarly Debates About This Perpetually Alluring Genre. key Films Discussed Include: the Maltese Falcon (huston, 1941) stray Dog (kurosawa, 1949) aventurera (gout, 1950) out Of The Past (tourneur, 1947) ossessione (visconti, 1943) la Bête Humaine (renoir, 1938) c.i.d . (khosla, 1956) the Lady From Shanghai (welles, 1947) the American Friend (wenders, 1977) chungking Express (wong, 1994) Preface : down these mean streets, again Film noir and the culture of internationalism. Dislocating James M. Cain's The postman always rings twice Pulp modernism in the 1930s: between the new and the real Noir's displaced persons Poetry and politics in interwar France : the case of Jean Renoir The fatal engines of La Bête humaine French film noir and the decay of the nation Cain in Italy : the decade of translations Luchino Visconti's Ossessione and noir cosmopolitanism Hollywood noir and the postwar culture of occupation. Postwar France and the "invention" of American film noir The Maltese falcon as existential passionplay Hollywood, Americanization, and market empire Germany : occupation noir and the shadow of Weimar Occupied Japan and Kasutori noir From cesspools and slums to far-fetched amusements : Akira Kurosawa, Sam Fuller and Carol Reed The times of film noir. Out of Mexico's past From neorealism-nero to Antonioni's noir modernism Untimely death and Spanish noir under Franco Post-colonial noir : the dark streets of Bombay Perilous developments? : Iranian noir and the Islamic state California dreaming : Chungking express and Wong's dark optimism Critical debates. Noir's ontologies, origins, and critical futures Genre or discourse? How global culture remakes noir Post-post modernism : or, the future is history The future of noir nostalgia : the American friend Noir's others. Noir sexuality and the politics of desire Noir as the refuge of whiteness? The lady from Shanghai, Touch of evil, and noir's exaggerated types Film noir style and the arts of dying. Technologies of noir style Noir style as history Lost voices and other ghosts of noir media Styles of noir cinephilia. Gestures, hats, and contract killers : noir fashion in France Making Asian gangsters modern Ghost dog : love, theft, and the afterlife of cinephilia Fragments of one international noir history. The term 'film noir' still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain of world cinema. This book traces film noir's emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crises of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like world-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir's heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre. Key films discussed include: The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941); Stray Dog (Kurosawa, 1949); Aventurera (Gout, 1950); Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947); Ossessione (Visconti, 1943); La Bete Humaine (Renoir, 1938); C.I.D. (Khosla, 1956); The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947); The American Friend (Wenders, 1977); and, Chungking Express (Wong, 1994) The term "film noir" still conjures up images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life. But, from its beginnings, film noir has been an international phenomenon, and its stylistic icons have migrated across the complex geo-political terrain connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its post-war consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The authors examine how film noir crosses national boundaries, speaks to diverse international audiences, and dramatizes local crimes and the crisis of local spaces in the face of global phenomena like word-wide depression, war, political occupation, economic and cultural modernization, decolonization, and migration. This fresh study of film noir and global culture also discusses film noir's heterogeneous style and revises important scholarly debates about this perpetually alluring genre. Preface : Down These Mean Streets, Again -- Film Noir And The Culture Of Internationalism -- Critical Debates : Genre, Gender, Race -- Film Noir Style And The Arts Of Dying -- Fragments Of One International Noir History. Jennifer Fay And Justus Nieland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Preface : down these mean streets, again -- Film noir and the culture of internationalism -- Critical debates : genre, gender, race -- Film noir style and the arts of dying -- Fragments of one international noir history.