Philosophy of TV Noir

Informationen zum Autor Steven M. Sanders, emeritus professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts, is coeditor of The Philosophy of TV Noir. He lives in Franklin, Massachusetts. Klappentext Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré 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 collection, contributors from philoso Zusammenfassung Its pervasiveness suggests the vitality of the noir depiction of human experience and the importance of TV for transmitting the legacy of film noir and producing new forms of noir.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Steven Sanders, Steven M. Skoble Sanders, Steven Skoble Sanders, Aeon J Skoble, Aeon J. Skoble
• Collaboration: Steven M. Sanders (Editeur), Aeon J. Skoble (Editeur)
• Edition: University Press of Kentucky
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 04.01.2008
• EAN: 9780813124490
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-2449-0
• Pages: 288
• Thèmes: Philosophy of Popular Culture; The Philosophy of Popular Culture
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Théâtre, ballet