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OverviewFrench film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Walker-MorrisonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Volume: 57 Weight: 0.485kg ISBN: 9781784539719ISBN 10: 1784539716 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 October 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsDedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements I. Setting the Scene 1. Introduction 3-17 2. Fatal(e) Desire in French Poetic Realism 18-28 II. The Long Shadow of War 3. Looking for the Light 31-49 4. Too Many Women? War and Fatal(e) Desire 50-68 III. Cherchez La Femme 5. Fatal(e) Passions: Tragic Fatalitaires and Star-Crossed Lovers 71-93 6. 'Thou Shalt Not Covet': Adulterous Fatalitaires 94-112 7. Bad Girls 113-136 IV. Cherchez L'Homme 8. Fatal Men 139-161 9. Law Enforcers Meet the Femme 162-182 10. Love and Money: Gender and Consumption in Gangster Noir 183-204 V. Conclusion Classic French Noir: The Dark Side of 'Quality' Cinema (1946-59) 207-214 Appendices Appendix 1: 101 French Films Noirs217-222 Appendix 2: Tables223-225 BibliographyReviewsMorrison covers a vast number of films with assurance and style... This is an erudite and insightful book. * CHOICE * Author InformationDeborah Walker-Morrison is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published widely on French cinema and is co-author (with Alistair Rolls) of French and American Noir: Dark Crossings (2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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