- Title
- Knowledge, Morality, and Tragedy in The Killers and Out of the Past
- Author/Creator
- Ian Jarvie
- Publication Details
- The Philosophy of Film Noir, pp.163-185
- Annotation
- Film study. Compares Siodmak s version of The Killers (1946) to Tourneur s Out of the Past (1947), considering Aristotle s Poetics. Argues that audience disconnection from the exotic and immoral world of film noir excludes the genre from classical tragedy.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130921103691
Book chapter
Knowledge, Morality, and Tragedy in The Killers and Out of the Past
The Philosophy of Film Noir, pp.163-185
2005
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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