Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0252080181 ISBN 13: 9780252080180

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle.

But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. InKiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir, Robert Miklitsch curates a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Contributors analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, as well as investigate Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration unwinds the impact of hot-button topics like race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality.

As bracing as a stiff drink, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands writes the future of noir scholarship in lipstick and chalk lines for film fans and scholars alike.

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L'autore

Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the department of English language and literature at Ohio University. He is the author ofSiren City: Sound and Source Music in American Film Noir.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0252080181
• ISBN 13: 9780252080180
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Redattore: Miklitsch Robert