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Film Noir Fascination: Outside History, but Historically So
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 43, Number 1, Fall 2003
- pp. 3-24
- 10.1353/cj.2003.0024
- Article
- Additional Information
Film noir is a recognized object of historical fascination, but the structures of fascination internal to the films have yet to be analyzed and theorized historically. The work of Maurice Blanchot and Walter Benjamin helps locate the moral and political force of noir as it relates to cinema spectatorship and historical experience as defined by the fascinating image.