Film Noir and Los Angeles

Film Noir and Los Angeles
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781351396837
ISBN-13 : 1351396838
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Book Synopsis Film Noir and Los Angeles by : Sean W. Maher

Download or read book Film Noir and Los Angeles written by Sean W. Maher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark portrayals of the city are analyzed in Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction through to key films like Double Indemnity (1944) and The End of Violence (1997). By employing these fictional elements as the basis for historicising the city’s unrivalled urban form, the analysis demonstrates an innovative approach to urban historiography. Revealing some of the earliest tendencies of postmodern expression in Hollywood cinema, this book will be of great relevance to students and researchers working in the fields of film, literature, cultural and urban studies. It will also be of interest to scholars researching histories of Los Angeles and the American noir imagination.


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