Film Noir and Los Angeles
This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir.
Dark portrayals of the city are analyzed in Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction through to key films like Double I...
This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir.
Dark portrayals of the city are analyzed in Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction through to key films like Double I...
