{"product_id":"shades-of-noir","title":"Shades of Noir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eShades of Noir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoan Copjec\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780860916253\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerso Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1993\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e320\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFor this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e, prompted the naming and theorization of a new phenomenon: \u003ci\u003efilm noir\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch of what has been written about the genre since has remained within the orbit of this preliminary assessment. While sympathetic towards the early French critics, this collection of original essays attempts to move beyond their first fascinated look. Beginning with an autonomy of that look--of the '\u003ci\u003epoujadist\u003c\/i\u003e' climate that nourished it and the imminent collapse of the Hollywood studio system that gave it its mournful inflection--\u003ci\u003eShades of Noir\u003c\/i\u003e re-explores and calls into question the object first constructed by it. The impetus for this shift in perspective comes from the films themselves, viewed in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, and from new theoretical insights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeveral contributions analyze the re-emergence of noir in recent years, most notably in the hybrid forms produced in the 1980s by the merging of noir with science fiction and horror, for example \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAngel Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, and in films by black directors such as \u003ci\u003eDeep Cover, Straight out of Brooklyn, A Rage in Harlem\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne False Move\u003c\/i\u003e. Other essays focus on the open urban territory in which the noir hero hides out; the office spaces in \u003ci\u003eChandler\u003c\/i\u003e, and the palpable sense of waiting that fills empty warehouses, corridors and hotel rooms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinally, \u003ci\u003eShades of Noir\u003c\/i\u003e pays renewed attention to the lethal relation between the sexes; to the femme fatale and the other women in noir. As the role of women expands, the femme fatale remains deadly, but her deadliness takes on new meanings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors: Janet Bergstrom, Joan Copjec, Elizabeth Cowie, Manthia Diawara, Frederic Jameson, Dean MacCannel, Fred Pfeil, David Reid and Jayne L. Walker, Marc Vernet, Slavoj Žižek.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Shades of Noir | Joan Copjec | Paperback | 9780860916253 | Used: Like New | Cinema 1656218","offer_id":48415046828184,"sku":"1656218","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/912aWSTdeTL.jpg?v=1771946653","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/shades-of-noir","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}