More than night: film noir in its contexts (upd. & exp. ed. 2008)

Film noir evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50smelodramas 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 N. Read more... Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE 2008 EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN; 1. THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA; 2. MODERNISM AND BLOOD MELODRAMA: THREE CASE STUDIES; 3. FROM DARK FILMS TO BLACK LISTS: CENSORSHIP AND POLITICS; 4. LOW IS HIGH: BUDGETS AND CRITICAL DISCRIMINATION; 5. OLD IS NEW: STYLES OF NOIR; 6. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET; 7. THE NOIR MEDIASCAPE; 8. NOIR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Film and Broadcast Index