| Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir Contributor(s): Hirsch, Foster (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879102888 ISBN-13: 9780879102883 Publisher: Limelight OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2004 Annotation: "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 not 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 year, 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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| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Performing Arts | Film - Reference |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 99037006 |
| Series: Limelight |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 404 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "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 |