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Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

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Film StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1350157449
ISBN13: 9781350157446
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 30 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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