William S. Allen

Noir and Blanchot

Deteriorations of the Event

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In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult position. Optimism seems naïve, while pessimism is no better. During some of the most demanding years of the 20th century two distinctive bodies of work sought to respond to this problem: the writings of Maurice Blanchot and American film noir. Both were seeking not only to respond to the times but also to critically reflect them, but both were often criticised for their own darkness. Understanding how this darkness became the means of responding to the darkness of the times is the focus of Noir and Blanchot, which examines key films from the period (including Double Indemnity a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-5892-0
EAN: 9781501358920
Produktnummer: 33121779
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 642 KB

Über den Autor

William S. Allen (PhD, University at Warwick) is an independent researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and the author of the following books: Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot(2007); Aesthetics of Negativity: Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy (2016); Without End: Sade's Critique of Reason(Bloomsbury, 2018); Blanchot and the Outside of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2019); and, Noir and Blanchot: Deteriorations of the Event (Bloomsbury, 2020).