Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir
Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino.” – Washington Post Book World
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Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir
Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino.” – Washington Post Book World
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Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

by Foster Hirsch
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

by Foster Hirsch

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Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino.” – Washington Post Book World

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780879102883
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/01/2004
Series: Limelight
Edition description: 1ST LIMELI
Pages: 404
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

1Mapping the Route1
2The Second Time Around23
3The French Connection67
4"The Boys in the Back Room"109
5The Quest: Errands into the Maze145
6The Wounds of Desire179
7Melodramas of Mischance211
8Born to Be Bad253
9Black Noir289
10Beyond Noir: The Roads to Ruin307
Bibliography325
Filmography329
Illustrations379
Index383
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