I found a cool summer class covering the “hard-boiled” tradition in cinema.  Looks like it’ll be pretty cool, here’s the description: The course explores visual and directorial styles, narrative patterns, psychological and social dimensions of protagonists, and spatial tropes in American film noir 1941-1958, as well as within the new-noir opus. Aesthetic, cultural, historical, and socio-political factors that shaped American noir are examined. The noir cycle is further analyzed in its contribution as a critical cultural and aesthetic discourse in American film art. The hardboiled tradition, the femme fatale figure, masculinity in crises, the Hollywood blacklist and the politics in/of noir, the aesthetics of violence, patterns of moral conflict and (neo)noir nostalgias and reinterpretations, will be discussed. Films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Abraham Polonsky, Robert Siodmak, Jacques Tourneur, Nicholas Ray, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Aldrich, and other noir, as well as neo-noir, directors will be screened.

I found a cool summer class covering the “hard-boiled” tradition in cinema.  Looks like it’ll be pretty cool, here’s the description:

The course explores visual and directorial styles, narrative patterns, psychological and social dimensions of protagonists, and spatial tropes in American film noir 1941-1958, as well as within the new-noir opus. Aesthetic, cultural, historical, and socio-political factors that shaped American noir are examined. The noir cycle is further analyzed in its contribution as a critical cultural and aesthetic discourse in American film art. The hardboiled tradition, the femme fatale figure, masculinity in crises, the Hollywood blacklist and the politics in/of noir, the aesthetics of violence, patterns of moral conflict and (neo)noir nostalgias and reinterpretations, will be discussed. Films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Abraham Polonsky, Robert Siodmak, Jacques Tourneur, Nicholas Ray, Alexander Mackendrick, Robert Aldrich, and other noir, as well as neo-noir, directors will be screened.

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