Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film NoirUniversity of Illinois Press, 1989 - 248 páginas The American film noir, the popular genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940s and 1950s, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and, in doing so, created unique narrative structures in order to speak of that darkness. J.P. Telotte's in-depth discussion of classic films noir--including The Lady from Shanghai, The Lady in the Lake, Dark Passage, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, and Murder, My Sweet--draws on the work of Michel Foucault to examine four dominant noir narrative strategies. |
Contenido
Noir Narration | 1 |
The Double Indemnity of Noir Discourse | 40 |
Narration Desire and The Lady from Shanghai | 57 |
Tangled Networks and Wrong Numbers | 74 |
Effacement and Subjectivity Murder My Sweets Troubled Vision | 88 |
The Real Thing Is Something Else Truth and Subjectivity in The Lady in the Lake | 103 |
Seeing in a Dark Passage | 120 |
The Transparent Reality of the Documentary Noir | 134 |
The Evolving Truth of the Documentary Noir | 154 |
Film Noir and the Dangers of Discourse | 179 |
Talk and Trouble Kiss Me Deadlys Apocalyptic Discourse | 198 |
Conclusion Noirs Dark Voice | 216 |
A Noir Filmography | 224 |
Bibliography | 236 |
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