French and American noir : dark crossings / Alistair Rolls and Deborah Walker
- 作者： Rolls, Alistair 1971-
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- 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
- 叢書名： Crime files series
- 主題： French fiction--20th century--History and criticism , Suspense fiction--History and criticism , Film noir--France--History and criticism , Suspense fiction, American--History and criticism , American fiction--20th century--History and criticism. , Film noir--United States--History and criticism
- ISBN： 9780230244825 、 0230244823
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- 書目註：There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the complexity of this transatlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage, especially in the case of French noir fiction. The result is a study of a 'genre' whose tendency is towards reflexivity and self parody. Where noir is keenly conscious of its own narrative structure, French noir is a celebration of its own French ancestry. Baudelaire is not simply a pioneer or forefather; instead, he lives on in twentieth-century French noir as a prose poetics. Sartre's Existentialism is not merely an accompanying philosophy to noir's mean streets but a crucial intertext, as relevant to the fictionand cinema of the 1990s and beyond as to the thrillers of the immediate post-war years. With French and American Noir, Rolls and Walker hope to put the French back into French noir Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005162187 | 機讀編目格式
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A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.
內容註
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and 矇Lo Malet -- Liberation Noir: Boris Vian and the 矇Srie Noire (1) -- Allegorical Noir: Boris Vian and the Serie Noire (2) -- Noir Strangulation (1): Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan -- Noir Strangulation (2): A矇mlie Nothomb and Intertextuality -- Jazz: Classic French Film Noir as Trans-Atlantic Exchange -- Fatal(e) Crossings: Figures of the Feminine in French and American Film Noir -- Americans in Paris -- From Honest Thief to Media Sociopath -- Double-Crossings: Reversing the Remake-- Bibliography -- Index