The Cursed Charm of Film Noir

Authors

  • Lucas Morgan Disalvo Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Film noir, cultural sociology, film genre, film history

Abstract

Jean-Pierre Esquenazi begins identifyingthe film noir as a cinephile intuition,which would associate a vibrant thermalwithin a contemporary group of filmswith a subjective thermal characteristicof the American postwar period, andunderstanding it as a successful massmyth.

References

Dmytryk, E. (1944). Murder My Sweet [Película]. Estados Unidos: RKO Pictures.

Esquenazi, J.P. (2018). El Film Noir. Historia y significaciones de un género popular subversivo. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina: El cuenco de plata.

Preminger, O. (1944). Laura [Película]. Estados Unidos: 20th Century Fox.

Wilder, B. (1944). Double Indemnity [Película]. Estados Unidos: Paramount Pictures.

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Published

2019-06-26

How to Cite

Disalvo, L. M. (2019). The Cursed Charm of Film Noir. Arkadin, (7), 171–175. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/arkadin/article/view/662

Issue

No. 7 (2018): Arkadin 7

Section

Reseñas bibliográficas

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