Comparative Literature 695A - Sem-Int Film Noir
Fall
2013
01
3.00
Don Levine
W 3:35PM 7:30PM
UMass Amherst
32129
Often referred to as the only indigenous American film style, "film noir" in its very appellation reveals that its major effects (for certain modern conceptions of cinema) lay elsewhere. We will examine film noir in its American heyday (1945-1957) and how it came to be a major propelling force in the new European cinema of the 1960's (Godard, and the Cahiers du cinema).