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- Title: Fatalism in American Film Noir
- Author : Robert B. Pippin
- Release Date : January 22, 2012
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 923 KB
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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.