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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy

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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy - Pippin, Robert B
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How do we distinguish what people do from what merely happens to them? Looking at several film noirs--including close readings of three classics of the genre, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai, and Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past--Pippin reveals the ways in which these works explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.

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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy 2013, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813934020

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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy 2012, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813931890

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