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Neo-Noir
Edited by Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre and Greg Tuck
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Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.
About the authors:
Mark Bould is editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2008), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009), and The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009). Kathrina Glitre is author of Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65 (2006) and Starring Cary Grant (2010). Greg Tuck editor of Film-Philosophy and is currently writing Philosophy, Cinema, and Sex. All three teach film studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
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A fine collection of essays... Essential. Choice
See the publisher website: Wallflower Press
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