In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

by Frank Krutnik

Book Overview

Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity of film noir and its significance within American popular culture of the 1940s. He considers classical Hollywood cinema, debates on genre, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041502630X
• ISBN13: 9780415026307
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary