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Film noir and the cinema of paranoia

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Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is an overview of 20th- and 21st-century noir and fatalist film practice from 1945 onwards. The book demonstrates the ways in which American cinema has inculcated a climate of fear in our daily lives, as reinforced, starting in the 1950s, by television, and later videocassettes, the web, and the Internet, to create, by the early 21st century a hypersurveillant atmosphere in which no one can avoid the barrage of images that continually assault our senses. The book begins with the return of American soldiers from World War II, 'liberated' from war in the Pacific by the newly created atomic bomb, which will come to rule American consciousness through much of the 1950s and 1960s and then, in a newer, more small-scale way, become a fixture of terrorist hardware in the post-paranoid ear of the 21st century. Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia is constructed in six chapters, each highlighting a particular 'raising of the cinematic stakes' in the creation of a completel
Request Code : ZLIBIO1424540
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Year:
2009
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
198
ISBN 10:
0748630317
ISBN 13:
9780748630318
ISBN:
074862399X,978-0-7486-2399-0,9780748630318,0748630317,978-0-7486-2400-3

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