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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Penn State Press
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Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-27 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective down on his luck
Language: en
Pages: 136
Pages: 136
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
This book reveals the ways in which American film noir explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the ac
Language: en
Pages: 342
Pages: 342
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style
Language: en
Pages: 662
Pages: 662
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-27 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established an