Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

by Deborah Walker-Morrison

Book Overview

French 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350157449
• ISBN13: 9781350157446
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"