The Philosophy Of Film Noir
When Nietzsche declared ?God is dead,? little did he know he was helping to launch a new cinematic genre characterized by shady characters and seamy plotlines involving fallen women, murder and betrayal. But noir is inevitably more than just stylish filmmaking or the marriage between American hard-boiled fiction and German expressionism, according to the philosophers, film historians and English professors who contributed to this bo?
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The Philosophy Of Film Noir
"A fascinating, readable, and provocative book.... Highly recommended." - Choice "Dense and intriguing, the book suggests noir is best perceived as a slightly warped mirror held up to contemporary society." - Publishers Weekly "Explores the philosophical underpinnings of movies from the classical noir period and... suggests that films aren't noir merely because they share a consistent tone, or certain visual conventions, with the likes of The Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Double Indemnity." - Boston Globe "An intellectually seductive, hardboiled romp through a world of moral murkiness, femme fatales, and desperately lonely protagonists." - Eric Bronson, editor of Baseball and Philosophy"
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