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Classic French Noir by Deborah Walker-Morrison. Deborah Walker-Morrison is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Title Classic French Noir. Author Deborah Walker-Morrison.

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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 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.

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I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1784539716
ISBN-13
9781784539719
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publication Name
Classic French Noir : Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
International Library of the Moving Image Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.F54
Reviews
"Morrison covers a vast number of films with assurance and style... This is an erudite and insightful book." - CHOICE, Morrison covers a vast number of films with assurance and style... This is an erudite and insightful book.
Table of Content
Dedication List of Illustrations Acknowledgements I. Setting the Scene1. Introduction3-172. Fatal(e) Desire in French Poetic Realism18-28II. The Long Shadow of War3. Looking for the Light31-494. Too Many Women? War and Fatal(e) Desire50-68III. Cherchez La Femme5. Fatal(e) Passions: Tragic Fatalitaires and Star-Crossed Lovers71-936. 'Thou Shalt Not Covet': Adulterous Fatalitaires94-1127. Bad Girls113-136IV. Cherchez L'Homme8. Fatal Men139-1619. Law Enforcers Meet the Femme162-18210. Love and Money: Gender and Consumption in Gangster Noir183-204V. ConclusionClassic French Noir: The Dark Side of 'Quality' Cinema (1946-59)207-214AppendicesAppendix 1: 101 French Films Noirs217-222Appendix 2: Tables223-225Bibliography
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Gender Studies, Film / Genres / Crime, Film / Genres / General, Film / History & Criticism
Dewey Decimal
791.43655
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts

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