Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

Michael Mirabile (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-280-4 (ISBN)

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Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent “neo-noir” revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II decades. Often formally disruptive and experimental, films including Shock Corridor (1963), Mirage (1965), The 3rd Voice (1960), and Point Blank (1967) evoke controversial issues of the era, deriving dynamic influences amongst exploitation cinema, sensationalistic American B movies, and the European New Wave movement. Whether the focus is on nuclear destruction, mind control, or surveillance, late noir films, above all else, vividly portray the collective fears from the time.

Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Lewis and Clark College. He has published work on film, postmodernism, and the author Don DeLillo. He teaches film studies, film adaptation, post-World War II American fiction, and suspense and detective fiction.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Noir Confidential! Exposure and Panic in the Preceding Decade

Chapter 2. Beyond Suspicion: The Transitional Moment of Late Noir

Chapter 3. Clinical-Carceral: Cold War Surveillance and Confinement in Three Entrapment Narratives

Chapter 4. From Noir to Pulp: The Perverse Case of The Naked Kiss

Chapter 5. Late Noir and the Bomb: Mirage as Intertextual Reflection on Catastrophic Time

Chapter 6. (Un)Containment Strategies: A Hyperbolics of Sex

Chapter 7. Shattered Mirror: Multiple Fragments of Late Noir

Conclusion

Selected Filmography

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-280-8 / 1805392808
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-280-4 / 9781805392804
Zustand	Neuware