{"product_id":"the-dark-interval-film-noir-iconography-and-affect-9781501349683","title":"The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Padraic Killeen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Interval\u003c\/i\u003e examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound self-affection that recurs across noir films of every era. In doing so, it identifies the emergence of a specific cinematic figure - the 'intervallic' noir protagonist exposed to the redemptive force of his or her own passion. Significantly, the book contextualises the iconography of film noir in relation to prior art-historical visual traditions, in particular earlier representations of melancholia and the saturnine, locating noir against a much broader canvas than has been the norm. Examining central noir films of the classic and modern era (\u003ci\u003eThe Killers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Wasn't There\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as films at the peripheries of noir (from Jacques Tourneur's \u003ci\u003eCat People\u003c\/i\u003e to Wong Kar Wai's \u003ci\u003e2046\u003c\/i\u003e), the book locates a series of iconographic gestures, performance traditions and affective tonalities at once specific to noir and yet resonant with a deeper cultural and philosophical heritage. It is a meditation that uniquely grapples with the \u003ci\u003elook\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e of noir, and which dares to detect a unique quality of 'beatitude' that runs through a certain strain of noir films. In doing so, it illuminates why film noir remains one of the most provocative and affecting visual milieus of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086965792919,"sku":"9781501349683","price":12704.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501349683.webp?v=1767898790","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dark-interval-film-noir-iconography-and-affect-9781501349683","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}