Fatalism in American film noir : some cinematic philosophy / Robert B. Pippin.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pippin, Robert B., 1948-
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Page-Barbour lectures for 2010
Subjects:
Film noir > United States > History and criticism.
Fate and fatalism in motion pictures.
Physical Description:x, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past
  • "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai
  • Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street
  • "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?": concluding remarks.