| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 145 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Genre film auteurs
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Genre film auteurs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Auteurism -- Noir and neo-noir -- Kill me again -- Red Rock West -- The last seduction -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
In John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre, Paul Monaco provides a focused inquiry into the first three feature films that director John Dahl made for theatrical release: Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1993), and The Last Seduction (1994). Subsequent to their releases, these three films became identified in academic film criticism as neo-noir, and Dahl was labeled a "noir-meister" who made "a cottage industry of neo-noir." The importance of these three films, and Monaco's investigation of them, is how they illuminate a modern director's creative process in relation to an e. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Dahl, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dahl, John. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Dahl, John. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monaco, Paul. John Dahl and neo-noir. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010 9780739133316 (DLC) 2009053771 (OCoLC)496282346 |
| ISBN |
9780739133330 (electronic) |
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0739133330 (electronic) |
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9780739133316 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739133314 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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