Perspectives on Film Noir

by R. Barton Palmer (Editor)

With the revived use of film noir by such contemporary directors as Scorsese, Altman, and the Coen brothers, there has been heightened public and academic interest in the film noir as a genre movement and style. In this Perspectives volume, French theories of film noir are discussed with translations of key book reviews, essays and articles. Anglo-American theory and criticism - especially scholarship from the 1980s - illuminates social, literary and philosophical contexts of film noir in the 1940s, and the revival of its themes, style and subject matters in the 1970s and 1980s.

198 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University.