1st Edition
Film Noir and Los Angeles Urban History and the Dark Imaginary
Introduction Part I: Approaching the Metropolis 1. From Modern Metropolis to Postmodern Urbanism 2. Hard-Boiled Boulevards Part II: Los Angeles – Between the Screen and the Streets 3.City of Silhouettes 4. Noirscapes of Motion 5. The Neo Noirscape of Nostalgia 6. Through a Glass Darkly: Global Los Angeles and Postmodern Noirscapes at the End of the Twentieth Century
Biography
Dr Sean Maher is Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. He has been a been Visiting Scholar at UCLA Film and Television Archives. He is an Australian representative on the Steering Committee for the Filmmakers Research Network (FRN), a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant investigating filmmaking-based research. As a writer and director, he has produced essay films on Los Angeles and film noir as part of investigating creative practice-based research (Maher, S. and Kerrigan S, (2016) Noirscapes: Using the screen to write Los Angeles noir as urban historiography in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice).
“In order to move between film studies, urban geography and social theory, Maher develops an argument that shows considerable conceptual agility in its capacity to move across worlds to propose that the history of representing LA in film marks a transition in itself from the modern to the postmodern, and from the real to the hyperreal.”
Professor Terry Flew, University of Sydney, Australia"Fans of Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles noirs will love this title." - Dr. A. Ebert, popcultureshelf.com
