Film noir and the cinema of paranoia

• Main Author: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: Film noir > History and criticism. > United States; Film noir > History and criticism. > Great Britain; PERFORMING ARTS > Reference. > Film & Video; PERFORMING ARTS > General. > Film & Video; Film noir.; Electronic books.; Great Britain.; United States.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• The dream of return
• The postwar bubble
• The 1950s death trip
• The flip side of the 1960s
• The failure of culture
• Living in fear
• Appendix: A galleryof classi noir 'heavies.'