Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of *Film Noir*

By Jay P. Telotte

Book Overview

The American film noir, the genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940's and 1950's, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and created unique narrative structures to speak of that darkness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252015703
• ISBN13: 9780252015700
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"