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 111-257 Film Noir: Style and History

Note

Available as 111-357 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Associate Professor Barbara Creed

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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