Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema by Richard Martin

Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema

Richard Martin

199 pages • first pub 1997 (view editions)

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Classic film noir was Hollywood's "dark cinema" of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that ...

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