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(Limelight). " Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer , 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino." Washington Post Book World

ISBN-13: 9780879102883

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Limelight Editions

Publication Date: 08-01-2004

Pages: 404

Product Dimensions: 5.94(w) x 8.72(h) x 0.99(d)

Series: Limelight

Table of Contents

1 Mapping the Route 1
2 The Second Time Around 23
3 The French Connection 67
4 "The Boys in the Back Room" 109
5 The Quest: Errands into the Maze 145
6 The Wounds of Desire 179
7 Melodramas of Mischance 211
8 Born to Be Bad 253
9 Black Noir 289
10 Beyond Noir: The Roads to Ruin 307
Bibliography 325
Filmography 329
Illustrations 379
Index 383