Film noir and the cinema of paranoia
Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses. The book begins with the return of American soldiers from World War II, 'liberated' from war in the Paci. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748630318 (electronic bk.) 0748630317 (electronic bk.) |