The Rise of 'Bright Noir'. Redemption and Moral Optimism in American Contemporary TV Noir
This article explores how some recent American TV crime dramas that can be specifically labelled as noir address the issue of hope and redemption by undermining one of the main thematic and ideological features that both spectators and critics tend to assign to noir narratives: the logic of hopeless...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Navarra |
| Repositorio: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/61327 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/61327 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Materias Investigacion::Comunicación::Comunicación audiovisual Materias Investigacion::Arte y Humanidades::Generalidades Television Aesthetics Film Noir TV Series |
| Sumario: | This article explores how some recent American TV crime dramas that can be specifically labelled as noir address the issue of hope and redemption by undermining one of the main thematic and ideological features that both spectators and critics tend to assign to noir narratives: the logic of hopelessness, of no way out. In what I have coined as “bright noir”, several recent, influential and popular TV noir series (such as 'Justified' or 'Fargo') offer stories in which brave protagonists achieve a positive outcome and defeat evil while fulfilling a higher purpose or attaining an honorable end. |
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