Hollywood's Noir Detours: Unease in the Mental Megalopolis
Hollywood cinema entertained urban audiences, but it also encapsulated their experiences in a paradoxical way. The us film noir cycle, commonly seen as downbeat B‐movies made between 1941 and 1958, presented negative counterpoints to the advantages of modern life. Graham Barnfield argues that film n...
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| Published in: | Architectural design Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 104 - 107 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01-01-2006
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| Summary: | Hollywood cinema entertained urban audiences, but it also encapsulated their experiences in a paradoxical way. The us film noir cycle, commonly seen as downbeat B‐movies made between 1941 and 1958, presented negative counterpoints to the advantages of modern life. Graham Barnfield argues that film noir is nothing if not a mental megalopolis, originating a sensibility that continues to underpin cinematic visions of the future in our age of blinding computer‐generated imagery (CGI). |
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| Bibliography: | istex:33CC59A0016251079A31972E58C976CE46267920 ArticleID:AD220 ark:/67375/WNG-DM484G3V-R ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0003-8504 1554-2769 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ad.220 |