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Overview"Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergence between fans and scholars with regard to goals and methods for appreciating and studying noir. The Maltese Touch of Evil aims to bridge that gap. Based on a series of popular podcasts, this unique and inspired investigation of film noir sets out to examine the case of noir more closely, and in the process reconfigures the critical evidence on noir that has been presented to date. The Maltese Touch of Evil reproduces and re-sequences nearly 150 still images from 31 great films, laying them out with the authors' informed and entertaining insights into the significance of each shot. The result is a de facto meta–film noir, a celebration of the genre that shows how these films are themselves ""constrained"" texts whose carefully calculated visual forms simultaneously generate narrative and critical commentary on that narrative. You will never look at film noir the same way again." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard L. Edwards , Shannon Scott Clute , Richard EdwardsPublisher: Dartmouth College Press Imprint: Dartmouth College Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.516kg ISBN: 9781611680478ISBN 10: 1611680476 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 12 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsReaders may have different senses how these noiremes cohere into a meta-film, but the individual commentaries are unfailingly insightful and suggestive of the noir ethos. In addition to the usual suspects, films include Sunset Boulevard, It's a Wonderful Life, Blade Runner, Batman Begins, and Good Night and Good Luck. This last chapter, a model for close analysis, will reward the reader more than the opening chapters. . . . Recommended. Choice Readers may have different senses how these noiremes cohere into a meta-film, but the individual commentaries are unfailingly insightful and suggestive of the noir ethos. In addition to the usual suspects, films include Sunset Boulevard, It's a Wonderful Life, Blade Runner, Batman Begins, and Good Night and Good Luck. This last chapter, a model for close analysis, will reward the reader more than the opening chapters. . . . Recommended. --Choice Author InformationSHANNON SCOTT CLUTE is an independent scholar who works for Turner Classic Movies in Atlanta. RICHARD L. EDWARDS is Lead Instructional Designer in the Integrated Learning Institute at Ball State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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