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Night and the City

Night and the City

Pulver, Andrew

Paperback

Series: BFI Film Classics

Film Guides & Reference

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ISBN10: 1844572803
ISBN13: 9781844572809
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: Nov 23 2010
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Andrew Pulver's study of Night and the City argues that it is one of the most important noir films ever made. Drawing from biographies, journals and interviews, Pulver traces the film's development and production history and its reception by British and American critics, considering the film both as an example of British film noir--which was heavily influenced by the constricting social mores of the interwar years and the shattering effects of WWII--and also as a hybrid of contrasting American and European noir traditions. Finally, Pulver explores the film's representations of the dark underworld of London's Soho, at once the city's entertainment area, but also containing a subterranean life of criminality, prostitution and menace, and reflects upon its contribution to a long history of mythologising of this ever-shifting urban landscape.

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