Argentine Cinema

From Noir to Neo-Noir

By (author) David George, Gizella Meneses

Publication date:

22 December 2017

Length of book:

192 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498511865

Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir examines the phenomenon of Argentine film noir. Beginning with definitions of film noir and its international iterations, the book presents a history of the development of film noir and neo-noir in Argentina (from the 1940s to the present), as well as a technical, aesthetic, and socio-historical analysis of such recent Argentine neo-noir films as The Aura, The Secret in Their Eyes, and The German Doctor. It considers the question of inscription of such classic noirs as Double Indemnity and The Third Man and looks forward to future scholarly work on other Latin American noir and neo-noir films, especially those produced in Mexico and Brazil.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Noir Phenomenon
Chapter 2: The Naked Angel (1946)
Chapter 3: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1984)
Chapter 4: The Aura (2005)
Chapter 5: The Signal (2007)
Chapter 6: The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Chapter 7: The German Doctor (2013)
Conclusion
Bibliography

Argentine Cinema: From Noir to Neo-Noir is an informative read that is both enlightening and interesting. As a reader you are well convinced by the book’s conclusion that noir isn’t a phenomenon unique to just Hollywood, but is an international phenomenon due to the authors’ well presented argument.