More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts - Softcover

Naremore, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520254023 ISBN 13: 9780520254022

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

"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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"One of the very best film books in recent years. . . . There are any number of books on noir, but none as comprehensive, as rigorous, as far- reaching as Naremore's. . . . It will be the essential work for the field." (Dana Polan, University of Southern California)

From the Inside Flap:

"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."―Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520254023
• ISBN 13: 9780520254022
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408