European Film Noir
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European Film Noir
European Film Noir

European Film Noir

By
Andrew Spicer (Contributor)  

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European Film Noir is the first book to bring together specialist discussions of film noir in specific European national cinemas. Written by leading scholars, this groundbreaking study provides an authoritative understanding of an important aspect of European cinema and of film noir itself, for too long considered as a solely American form. The Introduction reviews the problems of defining film noir, its key characteristics and discusses its significance to the development of European film, the relationship of specific national films noirs to each other, to American noir and to historical and social change. Eight chapters then discuss film noir in France, Germany, Britain and Spain, analysing both earlier developments and the evolution of neo-noir through to the present. A further chapter explores film noir in Italian cinema where its presence is not so well defined. Each piece provides a critical overview of the most significant films in relation to their industrial and social contexts. European Film Noir is an important contribution to the study of European cinema that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cineastes, film teachers and researchers. -- . Illustrations, black & white
Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History in the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, University of the West of England -- .
  • Contributor: Andrew Spicer
  • Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780719067914
  • Number of Pages: 296
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Release Date: 2007-02-28
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Andrew Spicer is Reader in Cultural History in the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, University of the West of England -- .

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