Padraic Killeen, "The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect "
English | ISBN: 1501349686 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 52 MB
English | ISBN: 1501349686 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 52 MB
Invoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound self-affection that recurs across noir films of every era. In doing so, it identifies the emergence of a specific cinematic figure – the 'intervallic' noir protagonist exposed to the redemptive force of his or her own passion. Significantly, the book contextualises the iconography of film noir in relation to prior art-historical visual traditions, in particular earlier representations of melancholia and the saturnine, locating noir against a much broader canvas than has been the norm. Examining central noir films of the classic and modern era (
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