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Routledge
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Routledge
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Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir and its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers... Read more
Part 1 Classical Hollywood, genre, film noir; Chapter 1 Classical Hollywood: film and genre; Chapter 2 Genre and the problem of film noir; Part 2 Film noir: sources and determinants; Chapter 3 'Hard-boiled' crime fiction and film noir; Chapter 4 Film noir and the popularisation of psychoanalysis; Chapter 5 Film noir and America in the 1940s; Part 3 The representation of masculinity in the noir 'tough' thriller; Chapter 6 Masculinity and its discontents; Chapter 7 The 'tough' investigative thriller; Chapter 8 The 'tough' suspense thriller; Chapter 9 The criminal-adventure thriller; Chapter 10 A problem in 'algebra': Dead Reckoning and the regimentation of the masculine;
Biography
Frank Krutnik
