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Hollywood's Noir Detours: Unease in the Mental Megalopolis
✍ Scribed by Graham Barnfield
- Book ID
- 101407729
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-8504
- DOI
- 10.1002/ad.220
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Hollywood cinema entertained urban audiences, but it also encapsulated their experiences in a paradoxical way. The us film noir cycle, commonly seen as downbeat B‐movies made between 1941 and 1958, presented negative counterpoints to the advantages of modern life. Graham Barnfield argues that film noir is nothing if not a mental megalopolis, originating a sensibility that continues to underpin cinematic visions of the future in our age of blinding computer‐generated imagery (CGI).