Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

On Classic Film Noir

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Edited by Robert Miklitsch

Type

Essays

Subject

Genre

Keywords

film noir

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 242 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-252-08018-0

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Book Presentation:
White hot essays on overlooked aspects of classic film noir

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle.But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. In Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir, Robert Miklitsch curates a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Contributors analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, and investigate topics as disparate as Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration shows the impact of race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality on the genre.As bracing as a stiff drink, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands writes the future of noir scholarship in lipstick and chalk lines for film fans and scholars alike.Contributors: Krin Gabbard, Philippa Gates, Julie Grossman, Robert Miklitsch, Robert Murphy, Mark Osteen, Vivian Sobchack, Andrew Spicer, J. P. Telotte, and Neil Verma.

About the Author:
Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ohio University. He is the author of Siren City: Sound and Source Music in American Film Noir.

Press Reviews:
"An invaluable resource for anyone interested in film noir. Essential."-Choice

“The essays in Kiss the Blood off My Hands seek fresh angles on a genre that has attracted so much scholarship that the academic field has its own worn tropes: German Expressionism, post-war ambience, gender politics. Several essays in Robert Miklitch’s edited collection advance the study of film noir by attending to previously neglected aspects of style.”--Times Literary Supplement

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