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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir

Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir

Clute and Edwards

Each film noir weaves its own yarn of longing, corruption, and fateful decisions. In each episode of this podcast series, Clute and Edwards investigate one noir or neo-noir in detail. Following various threads of inquiry, they attempt to unravel the vast canvas of noir. More info at www.noircast.net
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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 11: The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski

Episode 11: The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski

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11/15/05 • 80 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 31: Touch of Evil

Episode 31: Touch of Evil

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01/02/07 • 33 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Noircast Special 3: The Maltese Touch of Evil Video Essay

Noircast Special 3: The Maltese Touch of Evil Video Essay

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06/11/11 • 6 min

While many scholars have focused on noir as a dark visual style, or a worldview marked by the anxieties and stark realities of modernity, few have addressed noir's high degree of self-consciousness or its profoundly quirky humor. In their new book,The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, Clute and Edwards focus on these underappreciated characteristics of noir to demonstrate how films noir frame their "intertextual" borrowings from on another and create visual puns, and how these gestures function to generate both compelling narratives and critical reflections upon those narratives. Drawing on the on the concept of "constraint" articulated by the Oulipo (a French acronym for "Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle," or "Workshop of Potential Literature"), Clute and Edwards demonstrate that noir was the most constrained of film styles, and the constraints noir embraced gave rise to its infinite variability and unprecedented self-reflexivity--the very characteristics that have often forced scholars to bracket off noir, framing it as an exception to the otherwise tidy world of studio-era American cinema. In this video essay, Clute and Edwards use the simple constraint of run time percentage to recombine iconic moments from 31 films noir and neo-noir, and in the process create a short film that is at once a noir narrative and an investigation into the narrative constraints embraced by noir.

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 51: L.A. Noire

Episode 51: L.A. Noire

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08/16/11 • 37 min

A product of Clute and Edwards' longstanding fascination with film noir and hard-boiled literature, this podcast investigates how certain mid-century visual and storytelling conventions evolved into Rockstar Games/Team Bondi's new video game L.A. NOIRE. To some degree, noir and hard-boiled themselves evolved from a 19th-century literary tradition that involved contests of deduction and linear modes of problem-solving (a tradition established by Edgar Allan Poe), but in the wake of two world wars and other evidence of the havoc wreaked by modern "progress" those storytelling traditions evolved into something darker and more nuanced—something that offered less certain outcomes. L.A NOIRE plays on both traditions: it is linear and problem-based in its narrative structure, yet its underlying worldview is as brooding and morally ambiguous as the finest films noir and hard-boiled novels. Like all great digital works it is a mashup that weaves together swaths of historical events and pop culture yarns, and the result is a vast tapestry of noir at once familiar and altogether unique.

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Noircast Special 4: Q and A with Shannon Clute and Jared Case
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01/01/05 • 58 min

On January 20, 2011 Clute introduced the film Mildred Pierce at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, as part of their Noir Series. His talk was preceded by a question and answer session with Jared Case (Head of Cataloguing and Research Center) on several noir topics: the origins of the Out of the Past podcast series; certain underappreciated aspects of noir; how scholarly approaches to noir have limited what we see; a new film studies paradigm he and Richard Edwards worked out in their forthcoming book The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism, which allows them unleash and understand other narrative potentials lurking in noir. For more information, visit www.noircast.net, or like us on Facebook under Noircast.

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 30: The Postman Always Rings Twice and The Man Who Wasn't There
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12/02/06 • 74 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 29: Detour

Episode 29: Detour

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11/01/06 • 41 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 17: Gun Crazy

Episode 17: Gun Crazy

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02/15/06 • 42 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 16: The Grifters

Episode 16: The Grifters

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02/01/06 • 29 min

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Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir - Episode 24: Chinatown

Episode 24: Chinatown

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06/01/06 • 34 min

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How many episodes does Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir have?

Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir currently has 64 episodes available.

What topics does Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Film, Podcasts, Movies, Noir, Analysis, Hollywood, Tv & Film, Cinema and Review.

What is the most popular episode on Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir?

The episode title 'Episode 53: Out of the Past Act II' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir?

The average episode length on Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir is 39 minutes.

How often are episodes of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir released?

Episodes of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir are typically released every 18 days, 2 hours.

When was the first episode of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir?

The first episode of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir was released on Jan 1, 2004.

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