Date 18 November 2021
Pages 505
Format cm 11 x 18
Price € 12.00
EAN 9782271139085
Publisher Website www.cnrseditions.fr

Film Noir

Publisher CNRS Éditions
GENRE History - Sociology
The epic saga of the genre that revolutionized the Hollywood aesthetic.

The story of film noir is the story of a community of intellectuals who migrated to Hollywood from Europe and New York in the 1930s. The genre was born of a sort of industrial accident toward the end World War II, as an act of defiance against studio censorship, and reached great heights before being targeted by Mccarthyism. With bitter clarity, film noir turned hard-boiled Hollywood heroes into frightened failures riveted by rebellious femme fatales, and major metropolises into endless labyrinths.
Here are the history and sociology of a genre both popular and profoundly critical, commercial and yet avant-garde.

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