Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir

"Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino." - Washington Post Book World

Author: Foster Hirsch
Publisher: Limelight
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 404
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780879102883
ISBN10: 0879102888
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Performing Arts | Film | Reference