Fatalism in American film noir : some cinematic philosophy /
Robert B. Pippin.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- 135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-126) and index.
Introduction -- Trapped by oneself in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the past -- "A deliberate, intentional fool" in Orson Welles's The lady from Shanghai -- Sexual agency in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street -- "Why didn't you shoot again, baby?": concluding remarks.
9780813934020 9780813931890 (cloth: alk. paper)
Film noir--History and criticism--United States Fate and fatalism in motion pictures