(Ebook pdf) L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
| #2273191 in Books | McFarland Company | 2004-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .81 x6.76 x10.36l,1.31 | File Name: 078641801X | 241 pages |
||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Not All That Impressed So Far|By Harvey M. Canter|I'm a few chapters into this slick-looking tome, which promises to enlighten us about the relationship of film noir to the city of Los Angeles. So far, I am not seeing that happen. I see a lot of anecdotal gab about peripheral details of each movie, but NOT a focus on Los Angeles as a backdrop, as a metaphor, as deadly landscap||"Entertaining." --Choice
"Offers a detailed analysis." --C&RL News
"Los Angeles is an ideal city for film noir...this detailed discussion of nine films explores such topics as why certain settings are appropriate for film noir, why L.A.
Los Angeles is an ideal city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest metropolitan area in the country, home to an ever-changing population of the disillusioned and in close proximity to city, mountains, ocean, and desert, the City of Angels became a center of American film noir. This work discusses nine films, each analyzed in detail, with explanations of why certain settings are appropriate for film noir, why L.A. has been a favorite of autho...
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