Edges of Noir
eBook - ePub

Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Edges of Noir

Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. Noir Confidential! Exposure and Panic in the Preceding Decade
  10. Chapter 2. Beyond Suspicion: The Transitional Moment of Late Noir
  11. Chapter 3. Clinical-Carceral: Cold War Surveillance and Confinement in Three Entrapment Narratives
  12. Chapter 4. From Noir to Pulp: The Perverse Case of The Naked Kiss
  13. Chapter 5. Late Noir and the Bomb: Mirage as Intertextual Reflection on Catastrophic Time
  14. Chapter 6. (Un)containment Strategies: Hyperbolics of Sex
  15. Chapter 7. Shattered Mirror: Multiple Fragments of Late Noir
  16. Conclusion
  17. Selected Filmography
  18. Bibliography