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Author(s):	Robert B. Pippin

Date:	2012-02-22	Format:	EPUB	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0813931894
Pages:	152	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9780813931890
Uploader:	Gustavi	Upload Date:	5/20/2015 1:16:14 AM

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The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales. In this book Robert Pippin argues that many of these films also raise distinctly philosophical questions. Where most Hollywood films of that era featured reflective individuals living with purpose, taking action and effecting desired consequences, the typical noir protagonist deliberates and plans, only to be confronted by the irrelevance of such deliberation and by results that contrast sharply, often tragically, with his or her intentions or true commitments. Pippin shows how this terrible disconnect sheds light on one of the central issues in modern philosophy the nature of human agency. 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 Langs Scarlet Street, Orson Welless The Lady from Shanghai, and Jacques Tourneurs 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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