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Cite as
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Full Title (English)
Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne
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Publisher
LED Edizioni Universitarie
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Proprietary, a publisher’s product number
5 (Online Journal)
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ISSN
17248698 (Online Journal)
22818952 (Printed Journal)
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Journal Volume Number
16
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Journal Issue Number
2
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Journal Issue Designation
Vol 16, No 2 (2017): Forever Noir: Practices, Metaphors, Fractals
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Journal Issue Date
2017
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Full Title (English)
French Poetic Realism and American Noir: “It’s always too late’”
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By (author)
Affiliation
Pace University
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Number of Pages
15
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Language of text
English
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Publication Date
2018/02/06
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Publisher's own category code
film noir, French Poetic Realism, réalisme poétique, Jean Renoir, Marcel Carné, Fritz Lang, Jean Gabin, German Expressionism, émigré filmmakers, Post-World War II film—USA
Main description (English)
This paper investigates the connections between French Poetic Realism of the 1930s and American film noir and argues that their significance has been understated. The goals of this study are three-fold. It begins with an examination of the treatment of Poetic Realism in the most significant critical views of the genealogy of American film noir; then several films are analyzed in some detail to reinforce the connections and contrasts in specific French and American films. The paper concludes with several proposals about why the role of Poetic Realism has been so often presented as relatively insignificant.