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Author Jacobs, Jason, author

Title Reluctant sleuths, true detectives / Jason Jacobs
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages)
Series SUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Contents Introduction: The Long Goodbye -- The Long Goodbye: Floating above the Genre -- 1 Out of the Past -- "All I can see is the frame." -- 2 Notorious -- 3 Vertigo -- 4 Chinatown -- Conclusion: True Detectives
Summary Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource title from digital title page; (viewed on March 6, 2023)
SUBJECT Out of the past (Motion picture : 1947) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007096090
Notorious (Motion picture : 1946) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008049893
Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97026672
Chinatown (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98048019
Chinatown (Motion picture) fast
Out of the past (Motion picture : 1947) fast
Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958) fast
Subject Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Detective and mystery films
Film noir
Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438492254
1438492251