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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Cinema Studies

111-257/357 Film Noir: Style and History

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Barbara Creed

Prerequisite/s:

111-105.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Not more than four hours of lectures, tutorials and film screenings each week

Subject Description:

A close study of film noir texts from Pandora's Box to The Last Seduction with emphasis on an evolving noir style. Topics studied will include: silent period; noir and German expressionism; noir horror; classic Hollywood noir of the 40s; postmodern noir and the evolving image of the femme fatale.

Assessment:

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays or take-home examination totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Copjec Joan (ed), Shades of Noir Verso, London 1993.
  • Kaplan E Ann (ed), Women in Film Noir, BFI Publishing 1980.
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