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861093
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Short, Sue,1968-
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| Title & Author
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Darkness calls : : a critical investigation of neo-noir /\ Sue Short.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2019.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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3030138070
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: 9783030138073
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3030138062
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9783030138066
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| Contents
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Intro; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: In Pursuit of the Neo-Noir; The Critical Profile Built-And Its Shortcomings; Why Is It Noir and How Is It New?; The Aims and Outline of This Investigation; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Crime, Corruption and Social Critique: A Thematic Overview of Noir; What Counts as a Counter Cinema?; Common Themes and Tropes; Heists and Hold-Ups; Vigilante Justice; Killers We Don't Necessarily Condemn; Home Invasion; Assassins; The Threat of Duplicitous Women; Shady Spouses and Surreptitious Suitors; Miscarriages of Justice; A Corrupt Legal System
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Altruism Versus Egotism-Noir's Competing ImpulsesThe True Proof of a 'Counter Cinema': Lighting the Darkness; Works Cited; Filmography; Index
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Chapter 5 Noir by Any Other Name?: Generic Confusion and DiffusionNothing New: A History of Hybridity; In League with the Devil or Doing God's Work?: Some Big Questions in Horror-Noir; Misused Power and Manufactured Realities: SF-Noir; Works Cited; Chapter 6 A Lighter Shade of Noir: Differing Uses of Comedy; A Sign of Exhausted Ideas or Renewed Inventiveness?; Mordant Mirth and Cruel Comedy; From Fear to Absurdity: Outlandish Extremes and Parodic Twists; Works Cited; Chapter 7 Fatalism vs Free Will: Nihilism and Noir; The Labyrinth and Existential Malaise
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Cover-Ups and ConspiraciesTainted Treasure; Lovers on the Run; New Developments and Departures; Gender, Race and Sexuality; Metaphysical Concerns; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Conflict and Crisis: Masculinity and Noir; The 'Crisis' Argument Reconsidered; Performativity and Reclaimed Machismo; Reluctant Avengers and the Rejection of Violence; Works Cited; Chapter 4 Fear and Fantasy: Women in Noir; The Femme Fatale: A Figure of Antipathy or Potential Identification?; Avengers, Assassins, Amnesiacs and Outlaws; Heroic Helpers and Dogged Detectives; Works Cited
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Film noir-- History and criticism.
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Film noir.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.4365
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PN1995.9.F54
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