Palgrave 2002, p.258 This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ( The Big Sleep )...
I.B.Tauris, 2009. — 252 p. Romantic comedy has long been a mainstay of the movies, from the classic screwballs of the 1930s, through Woody Allen's 'nervous comedies' of the 1970s, to the current great Hollywood revival, featuring such movies as Maid in Manhattan and Lost in Translation ; yet rom-coms have often struggled to be taken seriously.This original anthology from an...
Harpenden: No Exit Press, 1997. — 289 p. — ISBN I-874061-84-X. From Hollywood to Hong Kong, from the violence of film noir and the paranoia of Alfred Hitchcock, to the amoral world of Seven, broadcaster and critic John Ashbrook takes a serious look at trends in modern crime and action movies, and the men behind them. Packed with information, intrigue and insight The Crime Time...
London: Macdonald and Jane, 1978. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0-354-04222-X. 'It has been a pleasure to read this volume: the right book published at the right time... John Brosnan has written the definitive history of the birth and growth of sf films.' So writes science fiction author Harry Harrison in his Foreword to this comprehensive and entertaining account of the cinema of science...
The University Press of Kentucky 2007- p.203 Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life and on the place of humankind in the...
The University Press of Kentucky 2005- p.239 From The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of Evil (1958), the classic film noir is easily recognizable for its unusual lighting, sinister plots, and feeling of paranoia. For critics and fans alike, these films defined an era. The Philosophy of Film Noir explores philosophical themes and ideas inherent in classic noir and neo-noir...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009- p.170 Noir. A shadow looms. The blow, a sharp surprise. Waking and sleeping, the fear is with us and cannot be contained. Paranoia. Wheeler Winston Dixon's comprehensive work engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth century to the present, ending with a discussion of television, the Internet, and dominant...
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2006. — 358 p. The Crime Lab — Theorizing Masculinity and the Detective Genre Introduction: The Case The Myths of Masculinity Investigating Masculinity — The 1940s and the 1980s Investigating National Heroes: British Sleuths and American Dicks Investigating Crisis: Neo-Noir Heroes and Femmes Fatales Investigating Crisis: The Spectacle...
Routledge, 2010. — 314 p. Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? These are the central questions of Julian Hanich’s path-breaking book, in which he takes a detailed look at the various aesthetic strategies of fear as well as the...
Praeger 1998, p.187 Exploring the relevance of Jungian theory as it applies to science fiction, horror and fantasy films, this text demonstrates the remarkable correlation existing between Jung's major archetypes and recurring themes in various film genres. An introduction acquaints readers with basic Jungian theory archetypes before proceeding to film analysis. A diverse...
London & Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2011. — 552 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-6366-4 More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book — such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 400 p. List of Illustrations page The Problem of the Crime Film Historical and Cultural Overview The Romance of the Silent Criminal Tough Guys The Crisis in Hollywood Crime, Criminal Culture and Mass Culture, The Establishment on Trial, Criminal Anxieties, Criminal Jokes, Critical Overview Theories of Crime Fiction Hollywood Mythmaking, Genre...
Routledge, 2009. — 244 p. Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film frequently makes its audience feel threatened and...
University of Queensland, Australia 2015- p.166 This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and up-to-date analysis of the femme fatale , fille fatale , and homme fatal from the classic era through to recent postmillennial neo-noir.
Scarecrow Press, 2012. — 514 p. The crime film genre consists of detective films, gangster films, suspense thrillers, film noir, and caper films and is produced throughout the world. Crime film was there at the birth of cinema, and it has accompanied cinema over more than a century of history, passing from silent films to talkies, from black-and-white to color. The genre...
Translated from French by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner. — Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 272 p. Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. — 231 p. A Nightmare on Elm Street. Halloween. Night of the Living Dead. These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers’ psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000. 224 p. Language: English. Dealing with over 300 films ranging from gangster and cop to trial and prison movies, Shots in the Mirror concentrates on works in the Hollywood tradition but also identifies a darker strain of critical films that portray crime and punishment more bleakly.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 319 p. — (Genres in American Cinema). — ISBN: 9781316262023. The thriller is perhaps the most popular and widespread movie genre--and the most difficult to define. Thrillers can contain gangsters or ghosts, space helmets or fedoras. They charge our familiar world with a spirit of exotic, old-fashioned adventure. They give us pleasure by...
Cambridge University Press 2004, p.195 This volume finds the proper place of psychoanalytic thought in critical analysis of cinema through a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility, and validity as applied to the horror genre. It distinguishes itself from previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and...
Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press, 1998. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-887664-18-1. In the art of cinema, voodoo films possess their own unique flavor and attraction. Filled with bizarre rituals, tropical locales, frenzied sensual dancing, deadly hexes, powerful sorcerers, and the dreaded walking dead, voodoo movies appeal to the western audience's thrill of the exotic... the strange......
Routledge, 2004. — 414 p. — ISBN: 9780415235075. This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process. Contributors consider...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 230 p. — ISBN: 9780748632855. This is the first comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema known as wuxia (literal translation: martial chivalry) - a genre which audiences around the world became familiar with through the phenomenal...
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2006, p.413 The Western film is inextricably tied to American culture: untamed landscapes, fiercely independent characters, and an unwavering distinction between good and evil. Yet Westerns began in the early twentieth century as far more fluid works of comedy, adventure, and historical explorations of the frontier landscape. Nanna Verhoeff...
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