Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema
- ISBN-10
- 6613938157
- ISBN-13
- 9786613938152
- Category
- Film noir
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Author
- Richard Martin
Description
Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties and fifties America. Mean Streets and Raging Bulls explores how, since its apparent demise in the late fifties, the noir genre has been revitalized during the post-studio era. The book is divided into two sections. In the first, the evolution of film noir is contextualized in relation to both America.
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