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Robert B.Pippin

Fatalism in American Film Noir

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The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most Hollywood films of that era featured reflective individuals living with purpose, taking action and effecting desired consequences, the typical noir protagonist deliberates and plans, only to be confronted by the irrelevance of such deliberation and by results that contrast sharply, often tragically, with his or her intentions or true commitments. Pippin shows how this terrible disconnect sheds light on one of the central issues in modern philosophy--the nature of human agency. How do we distinguish what people do from what merely happens to them? Looking at several film noirs--including close readings of three classics of the genre, Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street, Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai, and Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past--Pippin reveals the ways in which these works explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.

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2012
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  • jrcatherineцитирует7 лет назад
    (The Coen brothers clearly understand the style and its importance. Their noir [or meta-noir] The Man Who Wasn’t There—a title that makes the point all by itself—has a highly stylized example of this in the performance of a feckless, almost completely affectless antihero by Billy Bob Thornton.)
  • jrcatherineцитирует7 лет назад
    framing conventions in noirs are vertical (stairs, bars, and shadows of bars or blinds, shots from up or down, elevators, small, closed-in rooms, tight shots), urban, interior, with disorienting and shifting camera locations suggesting shifting and sometimes unreliable points of view, with shadowy lighting and paradigmatically taking place at night
  • jrcatherineцитирует7 лет назад
    the much-discussed problem of relatively liberated working women who were not about to take up again their old and oppressed roles as housekeepers. (The infamous misogyny and simple fear of women so obvious in many noirs are no doubt connected to both phenomena.)

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