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French and American Noir

Dark Crossings

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Alistair Rolls
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  2. Deborah Walker
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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alistair Rolls, Deborah Walker
    Pages 1-5

  3. Fetishistic Noir: Charles Baudelaire and Léo Malet

    • Alistair Rolls
    Pages 6-29

  4. Liberation Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (1)

    • Alistair Rolls
    Pages 30-49

  5. Allegorical Noir: Boris Vian and the Série Noire (2)

    • Alistair Rolls
    Pages 50-71

  6. Noir Strangulation (1): Terry Stewart and Vernon Sullivan

    • Alistair Rolls
    Pages 72-93

  7. Noir Strangulation (2): Amélie Nothomb and Intertextuality

    • Alistair Rolls
    Pages 94-114

  8. Jazz: Classic French Film Noir as Transatlantic Exchange

    • Deborah Walker
    Pages 115-131

  9. Fatal(e) Crossings: Figures of the Feminine in French and American Film Noir

    • Deborah Walker
    Pages 132-148

  10. Americans in Paris

    • Deborah Walker
    Pages 149-167

  11. From Honest Thief to Media Sociopath

    • Deborah Walker
    Pages 168-183

  12. Double-Crossings: Reversing the Remake

    • Deborah Walker
    Pages 184-199

  13. Erratum

    • Alistair Rolls, Deborah Walker
    Pages E1-E1

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 200-229
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About this book

A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.

About the authors

ALISTAIR ROLLS is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he teaches French. His research is in the area of twentieth-century French literature, with particular emphasis on the immediate post-war era. He has published works on Boris Vian, Jean-Paul Sartre and French detective fiction.

DEBORAH WALKER is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research is in French cinema and the translation of indigenous Pacific literatures. Current projects include a book-length study of the films of Alain Resnais and another on the figure of the femme fatale in French and American film noir.

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