Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
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| Title: | Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives |
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| Description: | Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives examines the detective figure in four noir and neo-noir films: Out of the Past (1947), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Chinatown (1974). Exploring the way that these characters each move from an initial state of reluctant passivity to one of passionate engagement with the world around them, it questions the cinematic forces required to motivate and move them. In its close examinations of each film, the book meditates on the detectives'hunts and how they interact with the cinematic apparatus that captures and presents them to an audience, and it tracks the receptive experience of these films in relation to these questions of motivation and movement. |
| Authors: | Jason Jacobs |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Philosophy, Detective and mystery films--United States--History and criticism, Film noir--United States--History and criticism |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Crime |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives examines the detective figure in four noir and neo-noir films: Out of the Past (1947), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Chinatown (1974). Exploring the way that these characters each move from an initial state of reluctant passivity to one of passionate engagement with the world around them, it questions the cinematic forces required to motivate and move them. In its close examinations of each film, the book meditates on the detectives'hunts and how they interact with the cinematic apparatus that captures and presents them to an audience, and it tracks the receptive experience of these films in relation to these questions of motivation and movement. |
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| ISBN: | 9781438492230 9781438492247 9781438492254 |
