Detours and Lost Highways

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Detours and Lost Highways begins with the Orson Welles film, Touch of Evil (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie 'is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could not longer be made in the same way'...'It is my belief,' Hirsch writes, 'that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty year, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels.' Among the movies he discusses as evidence: Chinatown (1974), Body Heat (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., The Killer, 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino. -Washington Post Book World

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