Fatalism In American Film Noir
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Fatalism In American Film Noir
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Author : Robert B. Pippin
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-02-22
Fatalism In American Film Noir written by Robert B. Pippin and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with Religion categories.
The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most Hollywood films of that era featured reflective individuals living with purpose, taking action and effecting desired consequences, the typical noir protagonist deliberates and plans, only to be confronted by the irrelevance of such deliberation and by results that contrast sharply, often tragically, with his or her intentions or true commitments. Pippin shows how this terrible disconnect sheds light on one of the central issues in modern philosophy--the nature of human agency. How do we distinguish what people do from what merely happens to them? Looking at several film noirs--including close readings of three classics of the genre, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street, Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai, and Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past--Pippin reveals the ways in which these works explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.
The Philosophy Of Film Noir
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Author : Mark T. Conard
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2006-01-01
The Philosophy Of Film Noir written by Mark T. Conard and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Reference categories.
Explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir films, establishing connections to diverse thinkers ranging from Camus to the Frankfurt School. The authors, each focusing on a different aspect of the genre, explores the philosophical underpinnings of classic films.
A Panorama Of American Film Noir 1941 1953
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Author : Raymond Borde
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 2002
A Panorama Of American Film Noir 1941 1953 written by Raymond Borde and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
Filmed Thought
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Author : Robert B. Pippin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Filmed Thought written by Robert B. Pippin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with Philosophy categories.
With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, goodness and naïveté in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski’s Chinatown and Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human.
Dark Borders
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Author : Jonathan Auerbach
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Dark Borders written by Jonathan Auerbach and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with History categories.
Connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir
Dark City
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Author : Eddie Muller
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-07-20
Dark City written by Eddie Muller and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-20 with Performing Arts categories.
This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark Cityexpands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.
Class Crime And International Film Noir
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Author : D. Broe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Class Crime And International Film Noir written by D. Broe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American phenomenon. Rather, these seedy tales with their doomed heroes and heroines were popular all over the world including France, Britain, Italy and Japan.
Film Noir
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Author : Homer B. Pettey
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Film Noir written by Homer B. Pettey and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-twentieth century popularization and influence on contemporary global media. By employing experimental lighting effects, oblique camera angles, distorted compositions, and shifting points-of-view, film noir's style both creates and comments upon a morally adumbrated world, where the alienating effects of the uncanny, the fetishistic, and the surreal dominate. What drew original audiences to film noir is an immediate recognition of this modern social and psychological reality. Much of the appeal of film noir concerns its commentary on social anxieties, its cynical view of political and capitalist corruption, and its all-too-brutal depictions of American modernity. This book examines the changing, often volatile shifts in representations of masculinity and femininity, as well as the genre's complex relationship with Afro-American culture, observable through noir's musical and sonic experiments. Key featuresTraces the history of film noir from its aesthetic antecedents through its mid-century popularization to its influence on contemporary global mediaDiscusses the influence of literary and artistic sources on the development of film noirIncludes extensive bibliographies, filmographies and recommended noir film viewingConcludes with a reflective chapter by Alain Silver and James Ursini on their own influential studies and collections on film noir criticism
The Cambridge Companion To Film Music
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Author : Mervyn Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-08
The Cambridge Companion To Film Music written by Mervyn Cooke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-08 with Music categories.
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Blackout
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Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-11-11
Blackout written by Sheri Chinen Biesen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Sheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.