Voices in the Dark

The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir

• Author(s): J. P. Telotte,
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0252015703
  ISBN_13: 9780252015700
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Crime ,

Description:... 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.