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Informationen zum Autor The author of this title is associate professor! Department of Film and Television Studies! University of Warwick. His publications include "City of Darkness! City of Light"! "Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939"! "100 Film Noirs" (with Jim Hillier)! "Journeys of Desire"! and "European Actors in Hollywood" (with Ginette Vincendeau). Klappentext "Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955)! directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin! recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. This companion to the film reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir. "Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. This companion to the film reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir. Zusammenfassung "Du rififi chez les hommes" (1955), directed by the exiled American film director Jules Dassin, recounts the nail-biting tale of a Parisian gangster heist gone wrong. This companion to the film reveals Dassin's role as a director of socially conscious Hollywood film noir. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgementsSynopsisI: IntroductionII: The Route to RififiA Cosmopolitan LifeHollywood and Film NoirThe Politics of ExileThe Tradition of French Film NoirAuguste le Breton and the Série NoireProduction HistoryIII: Reading Rififi Beginnings Du rififi chez les hommes and the Aesthetics of the Heist Thriller Space and Genre: the NightclubSpace and Genre: the CityMen and TroubleA Transnational Film Noir?IV: Reviewing Rififi A Surprise Success‘A Film Without Indulgence’The Politics of RealismAudiences, Trade and CultureV: Reviving Rififi After Du rififi chez les hommesInfluencesThe Rififi BrandRififi ReturnsAppendix 1: CreditsAppendix 2: Jules Dassin FilmographyAppendix 3: Auguste le Breton FilmographyAppendix 4: Films referred to in the bookAppendix 5: ‘Rififi à travers le monde’ BibliographyAppendix 6: Select Bibliography...
