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050 00 $aPN1995.9.F54$bC54 1997
082 00 $a791.43/655$221
100 1 $aChristopher, Nicholas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81110135
245 10 $aSomewhere in the night :$bfilm noir and the American city /$cby Nicholas Christopher.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c1997.
263 $a9703
300 $axiii, 290 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aFilmography: p. 273-280.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-271) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tInto the Labyrinth --$g2.$tNight and the City --$g3.$tPostcards from the Ruins: Some Americans Abroad --$g4.$tOffice Buildings and Casinos --$g5.$tGrafters, Grifters, and Tycoons --$g6.$tThe Dark Mirror: Sex, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis --$g7.$tBlack and White in Color --$g8.$tPaint It Black --$gAppendix.$tA Brief Genealogy --$tSelected Filmography: 1940-1959 --$tSelected Neo-Noirs: 1960-1997.
520 $aAcclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest.
520 8 $aWith acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance.
650 0 $aFilm noir$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103720
650 0 $aCities and towns in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026189
852 00 $bglx$hPN1995.9.F54$iC54 1997
852 00 $bglx$hPN1995.9.F54$iC54 1997