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Introduction |
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- Alain Silver, "Introduction" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, "Toward a Definition
of Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
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The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941) |
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- Raymond Durgnat, "Paint it Black" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Paul Schrader, "Notes on Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Janey Place and Lowell Peterson, "Some Visual Motifs of
Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
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Phantom Lady (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1943) |
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- *James Naremore, "Old is New: Styles of Noir"
- Tony Williams, "Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the
Masochistic Aesthetic" (in Silver/Ursini)
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Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder, 1944) |
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- Tom Ryall, "Genre and Hollywood" (in Hill/Gibson)
- *James Naremore, "Modernism and Blood Melodrama" (sel)
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| 2/6 |
Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944) |
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- John Belton, "American cinema and film history" (in
Hill/Gibson)
- Douglas Gomery, "Hollywood as industry" (in Hill/Gibson)
- E. Ann Kaplan, "Classical Hollywood film and melodrama"
(in Hill/Gibson)
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No class |
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| 2/20 |
Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang, 1945) |
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- *Thomas Schatz, Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the
1940s (sel)
- Stephen Crofts, "Authorship and Hollywood" (in Hill/Gibson)
- *Catherine Portuges, "Accenting L.A."
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| 2/27 |
Detour (dir. Edgar Ulmer, 1945) |
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- *David Bordwell, "The Classical Hollywood Style"
- *Andrew Britton, "Detour"
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| 3/6 |
No class |
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| 3/13 |
The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946) |
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- Robert Porfirio, "No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the
Film Noir" (in Silver/Ursini)
- *Marc Vernet, "Film Noir on the Edge of Doom"
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| 3/20 |
Out of the Past (dir.Jacques Tourneur, 1947) |
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- Paul Kerr, "Out of What Past?" (in Silver/Ursini)
- *Leighton Grist, "Out of the Past"
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| 3/27 |
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950) |
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- *Deborah Thomas, "Psychoanalysis and Film Noir"
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| 4/3 |
Kiss me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955) |
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- *Jonathan Buchsbaum,
�Tame Wolves and Phoney Claims: Paranoia and Film Noir
- Alain Silver, "Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style"
(In Silver/Ursini)
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| 4/10 |
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958) |
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- *James Naremore, The Magic World of Orson Welles (sel)
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| 4/17 |
Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski, 1974) |
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- Todd Erickson, "Kill Me Again" (in Silver/Ursini)
- Alain Silver, "Son of Noir: Neo-Film Noir
and the Neo-B Picture" (in Silver/Ursini)
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