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Philip Marlowe affronte l'un des cas les plus étranges de sa carrière. Son meilleur ami semble s'être suicidé, mais il s'agit en fait d'un double meurtre qui implique une blonde sexy, un truand détraqué et une valise remplie de billets. En s'approchant de la vérité, le privé s'embarque dans une spirale de sexe et de trahison...Un classique du 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.

Film noir --- Fate and fatalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism.

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Motion pictures --- Film noir --- Cinéma --- Films noirs --- Tourneur, Jacques, --- Goodis, David, --- Nightfall (Motion picture)

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Motion pictures --- Film noir --- Cinéma --- Films noirs --- Lang, Fritz, --- While the city sleeps (Motion picture) --- Beyond a reasonable doubt (Motion picture : 1956)

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"Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers. It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society and affirm the theoretical and political impact of cinematic knowledge. After discussing how the Frankfurt School saw cinema as an instrument of capitalism use to promote the cultural and political regimentation of the masses, Vighi then proceeds to demonstrate that critical theory can in fact suggest a different verdict on the progressive potential of cinema. Each chapter focuses on a key critical theory concept that is explained and redefined through film analysis to unravel the hidden presuppositions and most radical consequences of critical theory. A unique contribution to the literature, this volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series offer an innovative reading of film as a critical tool, drawing on the latest developments in Lacanian theory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Film noir --- Motion pictures --- Critical theory. --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sociology --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- Critical theory --- #SBIB:309H1326 --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen