(adjective) cloistral (of, relating to, or charac…
Shades of Noir: A Reader
by
Joan Copjec
(editor)
July 4, 2026 - July 5, 2026
(film-criticism, film-noir)
Copjec, J. (1993). Shades of Noir: A Reader. Verso Books.
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claustral »
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minatory »
(adjective) having a menacing quality; threatening
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lugubrious »
(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly …
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Always in Woolrich, life is ruled by chance, but …
p.72
When the Depression came and the bottom dropped o…
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Raymond Chandler, writing in 1950, attributed the…
p.65
[...] The nightclub symbolically concentrated eve…
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The reconstruction of a long-ago public 'mood', l…
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Introduction
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Film Noir on the Edge of Doom
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The Synoptic Chandler
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Strange Pursuit: Cornell Woolrich and the Abandoned City of the Forties
by David Reid and Jayne L. Walker
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Strange Pursuit: Cornell Woolrich and the Abandoned City of the Forties
by David Reid and Jayne L. Walker
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The Mystery of The Blue Gardenia
by JANET BERGSTROM
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Film Noir and Women
by ELIZABETH COWIE
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Home Fires Burning: Family Noir in Blue Velvet and Terminator 2
by Fred Pfeil
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Noir by Noirs: Toward a New Realism in Black Cinema
by Manthia Diawara
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