NEO-NOIR

Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game - and how to break them. From Point Blank (1967) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps out the terrain, combining genre, stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic and industrial approaches. Essays discuss works from the US, UK, France, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand; key figures, such as David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino and Sharon Stone; major conventions, such as the femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city and the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour.

October 2009
272 pages

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Mark Bould is editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and author of Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005) and The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2008).

Kathrina Glitre is author of Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65 (2006).

Greg Tuck is on the editorial board of Film-Philosophy and is the author of Philosophy, Cinema and Sex (forthcoming).

All three teach Film Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.