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John Dahl and neo-noir : examining auteurism and genre / Paul Monaco.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Genre film auteursPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 145 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739133330
  • 0739133330
  • 1282819976
  • 9781282819979
  • 9786612819971
  • 6612819979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: John Dahl and neo-noirDDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.D24
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Auteurism -- Noir and neo-noir -- Kill me again -- Red Rock West -- The last seduction -- Conclusion.
Summary: In John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre, Paul Monaco provides a focused inquiry into the first three feature films that director John Dahl made for theatrical release: Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1993), and The Last Seduction (1994). Subsequent to their releases, these three films became identified in academic film criticism as neo-noir, and Dahl was labeled a "noir-meister" who made "a cottage industry of neo-noir." The importance of these three films, and Monaco's investigation of them, is how they illuminate a modern director's creative process in relation to an e
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Auteurism -- Noir and neo-noir -- Kill me again -- Red Rock West -- The last seduction -- Conclusion.

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In John Dahl and Neo-Noir: Examining Auteurism and Genre, Paul Monaco provides a focused inquiry into the first three feature films that director John Dahl made for theatrical release: Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1993), and The Last Seduction (1994). Subsequent to their releases, these three films became identified in academic film criticism as neo-noir, and Dahl was labeled a "noir-meister" who made "a cottage industry of neo-noir." The importance of these three films, and Monaco's investigation of them, is how they illuminate a modern director's creative process in relation to an e

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