Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture - Dark Fictions

Zusatztext ...as a highly readable starting point for those wishing to research aspects of French crime fiction, and as a student-friendly survey of themes and trends in post-war French culture, this study has much to recommend it. Informationen zum Autor Claire Gorrara is Senior Lecturer in French at Cardiff University. She is author of French Women's Writing and the Occupation in Post-1968 France (Macmillan, 1998) and co-editor of European Memories of the Second World War (Berghahn, 1998) and France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts (Arnold, forthcoming 2003). Klappentext Thrilling, absorbing, and full of bizarre plot twists and motivations, the roman noir is crime fiction at its most exciting. In this lively introduction to the post-war French roman noir, Claire Gorrara challenges preconceptions about the roman noir as little more than a populist form of crime fiction and examines how selected writers have appropriated it as a critical response to formative concerns and debates in post-war French society. Zusammenfassung Populist and widely disseminated, the French roman noir has a reputation as a minor genre with its roots in American popular culture. This study challenges such preconceptions and examines the genre as a critical response to concerns and debates in post-war French society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Origins and beginnings: Léo Malet's 120, rue de la Gare (1943) 2: Criminal Intentions: Film Noir and Les Diabioliques (1955) 3: Counter-Cultural Politics: Jean-Patrick Manchette's Le Petit Bleu de la côte ouest (1976) 4: Historical investigations: Didier Daenickx's Meurtres pour mémoire (1984) 5: Telling Tales: Daniel Pennac's La Fée Carabine (1987) 6: Feminist fictions: Maud Tabachnik's Un été pourri (1994) Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Claire Gorrara, Claire (Senior Lecturer in French Gorrara, Gorrara Claire
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199246090
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924609-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; French, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000