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Hollywood's Noir Detours: Unease in the Mental Megalopolis
Author(s) -
Barnfield Graham
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.220
Subject(s) - megalopolis , vision , hollywood , sensibility , movie theater , nothing , aesthetics , blinding , art , art history , sociology , media studies , political science , law , literature , philosophy , geography , economic geography , medline , epistemology , anthropology
Abstract Hollywood cinema entertained urban audiences, but it also encapsulated their experiences in a paradoxical way. The us film noir cycle, commonly seen as downbeat B‐movies made between 1941 and 1958, presented negative counterpoints to the advantages of modern life. Graham Barnfield argues that film noir is nothing if not a mental megalopolis, originating a sensibility that continues to underpin cinematic visions of the future in our age of blinding computer‐generated imagery (CGI).