Revival
Revival
Situating Noir
Chapter 2 develops a new understanding of how to account for the revival of a genre like film noir. Because noir has haunted American culture since the 1940s, it is hard to know how we are supposed to situate or contextualize it. Reading classic noir films alongside contemporary ones, I redefine the noir genre as a prolonged study in the problem of situating ourselves in the present. Ultimately, I argue, noir’s repeated revivals compel us to rethink the very idea of the “historical situation,” and thus to expand our sense of what it means to be contemporary in the post-45 era.
Keywords: revival, film noir, historicism, situation, media, voiceover
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