BOOKS - Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia
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Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Year: February 12, 2005
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 14 MB
Language: English
Year: February 12, 2005
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 14 MB
Language: English
Noir . A shadow looms. The blow, a sharp surprise. Waking and sleeping, the fear is with us and cannot be contained. Paranoia. Wheeler Winston Dixon's comprehensive work engages readers in an overview of noir and fatalist film from the mid-twentieth century to the present, ending with a discussion of television, the Internet, and dominant commercial cinema. Beginning with the 1940s classics, Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia moves to the and "Red Scare and " and other ominous expressions of the 1950s that contradicted an American split-level dream of safety and security. The dark cinema of the 1960s hosted films that reflected the tensions of a society facing a new and, to some, menacing era of social expression. From smaller studio work to the vibrating pulse of today's and "click and kill and " video games, Dixon boldly addresses the noir artistry that keeps audiences in an ever-consumptive stupor.