Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917468
- Title
- French and American noir: dark crossings
- Author/Creator
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Rolls, Alistair;
Walker, Deborah
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- There is a longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir, according to which the post-war French thriller and film noir were merely a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book aims to challenge this understanding of French noir, at once examining the complexity of this transatlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage, especially in the case of French noir fiction. The result is a study of a 'genre' whose tendency is towards reflexivity and self parody. Where noir is keenly conscious of its own narrative structure, French noir is a celebration of its own French ancestry. Baudelaire is not simply a pioneer or forefather; instead, he lives on in twentieth-century French noir as a prose poetics. Sartre's Existentialism is not merely an accompanying philosophy to noir's mean streets but a crucial intertext, as relevant to the fiction and cinema of the 1990s and beyond as to the thrillers of the immediate post-war years.
- Relation
- Crime Files
- Relation
- http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=280988
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Keyword(s)
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French fiction;
film noir;
American fiction;
suspense
- Resource Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/917468
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230536906
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