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Beteiligte: Sanders, Steven, Skoble, Aeon J.
veröffentlicht:
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
©2008.
Teil von: The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 online resource (284 pages)
ISBN: 9780813156781
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series
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Print version:: Sanders, Steven, The Philosophy of TV Noir, Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,c2008
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Inhaltsangabe

The influence of classic film noir on the style and substance of television in the 1950s and 1960s has persisted to the present day. Its pervasiveness suggests the vitality of the noir depiction of human experience and the importance of TV for transmitting the legacy of film noir and producing new forms of noir. Noir television is also noteworthy for its capacity to raise philosophical questions about the nature of the human condition. Drawing from the fields of philosophy, media studies, and literature, the contributors to The Philosophy of TV Noir illuminate the best of noir television, including such shows as Dragnet, The Fugitive, Miami Vice, The X-Files, CSI, and 24.

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
An Introduction to the Philosophy of TV Noir
From Film Noir to TV Noir
The Through-Line of Film Noir
Realism and Relativism
An Unreasoning Annihilation
Alienation and Moral Ambiguity
Sunshine Noir
Existentialism, Crisis, and Revolt
Nihilism, Noir, and The Sopranos
Postmodernism and Crime Story
Paranoia, Detection, and Crime Scene Investigation
Espionage, Science Fiction, and Realism
The Ambiguous Perspective on Life
Notes
Part 1: Realism, Relativism, and Moral Ambiguity
Dragnet, Film Noir, and Postwar Realism
Realism and Documentary in the Film Noir
He Walked by Night
Dragnet: A Different Kind of Realism
The Story You Are about to See Is True
Notes
Naked City: The Relativist Turn in TV Noir
The Relativist Turn
Relativism of Morality and Normality
Cultural Relativism
Problems with Cultural Relativism
Individual Relativism
Notes
John Drake in Greeneland: Noir Themes in Secret Agent
Why Drake Is Not Bond
The Influence of Graham Greene
Noir Themes in Secret Agent
Notes
Action and Integrity in The Fugitive
Duty and Motivation
Angels Travel on Lonely Roads
The White Knight
Never Stop Running
Notes
Part 2: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Meaning of Life
Noir et Blanc in Color: Existentialism and Miami Vice
Amphetamine Theatre
Points on a Compass of Cultural Reference
Life Lessons and Death Sentences
Existential Errors
Miami Masquerade
An "I" Exam Is Existential
Two Existentialist Approaches
Out of Whose Past?
New Hope for the Living
Notes
24 and the Existential Man of Revolt
24 and Noir
Jack Bauer: Noir Protagonist
Camus' "Man of Revolt
Jack Bauer: Existential Hero
Notes.
Carnivale Knowledge: Give Me That Old-time Noir Religion
Carnivale and Religious Film Noir
Graham Greene's Whiskey Priest
Brother Justin's "Fear and Trembling
Notes
The Sopranos, Film Noir, and Nihilism
Nihilism and Film Noir
God and Gary Cooper Are Dead
It's All a Big Nothing
Animals and Animosity
The Sad Clown
Notes
Part 3: Crime Scene Investigation and the Logic of Detection
CSI and the Art of Forensic Detection
The Corrupt City and CSI Storylines
CSI as Procedural Noir
The Investigative Team
Case Studies
Notes
Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files
Alien Noir
The X-Files Mythology
Mulder and Scully as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Mulder and Scully as Noir Detectives
Mulder and Scully and Clifford and James
The Logic of Abduction-the Other "Abduction
Detective Semiotics and the "Absence Sign
Mulder Thinks Outside the Paradigm
Return to the "Will to Believe
Scully and Mulder as One Mind
Notes
Part 4: Autonomy, Selfhood, and Interpretation
Kingdom of Darkness: Autonomy and Conspiracy in The X-Files and Millennium
Mr. (and Ms.) Noir
G-Men
Trust No One
The Carceral Archipelago and the Panoptical Regime
Fugitives
Coda: A Noir World Order
Notes
The Prisoner and Self-Imprisonment
Know Thyself
Be Seeing You
I Am Not a Number! I Am a Free Man!
The Authentic Number 6
Six of One
Half a Dozen of the Other
Across the Landscape of Selfhood
Notes
Twin Peaks, Noir, and Open Interpretation
Shades of Noir
Why Not Noir?
The Reification of BOB
Open Interpretation
The Omissive Aesthetic
Notes
List of Contributors
Index.