The Philosophy of TV Noir

Bys: Sanders, Steven and Skoble, Aeon J.

Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many ?migr? filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813124492
• ISBN13: 9780813124490
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"