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Fatalism in American film noir : some cinematic philosophy /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past -- "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai -- Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street -- "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?"…”
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Noir anxiety /
Table of Contents: “…Stereotype and Voice in The Lady from Shanghai; 4. Sleeping Beauty and Her Doubles: The (Uncanny) Secret beyond the Door; 5. …”
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Women in film noir /
Table of Contents: “…Ann Kaplan -- Double indemnity / Claire Johnston -- Klute 2: feminism and Klute / Christine Gledhill -- Resistance through charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda / Richard Dyer -- Postscript: queers and women in film noir / Richard Dyer -- Female spectator, lesbian spectre: The Haunting / Patricia White -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- The postmodern always rings twice: constructing the femme fatale in 90s cinema / Kate Stables -- The 'Dark Continet' of film noir: race displacement and metaphor in Tourneur's Cat People (1942) and Welles' The Lady From Shanghai (1948) / E. Ann Kaplan -- 'Gilda didn't do any of those things you've been losing sleep over!'…”
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The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir /
Table of Contents: “…Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- Grim grin (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The -- lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogue's gallery -- Why not New York? …”
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The mysterious romance of murder : crime, detection, and the spirit of noir /
Table of Contents: “…Bentley) -- Dashiell Hammett's Priceless patter -- Paperclip (Raymond Chandler) -- Grim grin (Graham Greene) -- Rex Stout: the emperor of Couronne de Canard -- Ida Lupino: the First Lady of noir -- Black Friday (David Goodis) -- Orange noir (Charles Willeford) -- Ed McBain: the man from Isola -- Hitchcock's America -- Straight down the line: Billy Wilder's Double indemnity (1944) -- Strangers and mirrors: Orson Welles's The stranger (1946) and The -- lady from Shanghai (1947) -- An exchange of bullets in Belfast: Carol Reed's Odd man out (1947) -- Blind accidents: John Huston's The asphalt jungle (1950) -- Epitaph for a genre: Stanley Kubrick's The killing (1956) -- Shadow of evil: Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear (1962) -- A reluctant spy's conversion: William Holden in The counterfeit traitor (1962) -- Gangsters in love: Sergio Leone's Once upon a time in America (1984) -- Rogue's gallery -- Why not New York? …”
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