The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies - Brossura

Nicol, Bran

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780231024 ISBN 13: 9781780231020

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 2013

Riassunto

From Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Jake Gittes, private eyes have made for some of the most memorable characters in cinema. We often view these detectives as lone wolves who confront and try to make sense of a violent and chaotic modern world. Bran Nicol challenges this stereotype in The Private Eye and offers a fresh take on this iconic character and the film noir genre.Nicol traces the history of private eye movies from the influential film noirs of the 1940s to 1970s neonoir cinema, whose slow and brilliant decline gave way to the fading of detectives into movie mythology today. Analyzing a number of classic films—includingThe Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and The Long Goodbye—he reveals that while these movies are ostensibly thrillers, they are actually occupied by issues of work and love. The private eye is not a romantic hero, Nicol argues, but a figure who investigates the concealments of others at the expense of his own private life. Combining a lucid introduction to an underexplored tradition in movie history with a new approach to the detective in film, this book casts new light on the private worlds of the private eye.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Bran Nicol is professor of English literature at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of several books, includingStalking, published by Reaktion Books.

Product Description:

Book by Nicol Bran

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780231024
• ISBN 13: 9781780231020
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224