Frank Krutnik: 2 books
In a Lonely Street
Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the diversity...
by Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik take as their starting point the remarkable diversity of comedy's forms and modes - feature-length narratives, sketches and shorts, sit-com and variety, slapstick and romance. Relating this diversity to the variety of comedy's basic conventions - from happy endings to...