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The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions

Tom Ryan

Print publication date: 2019

Print ISBN-13: 9781496817983

Published to University Press of Mississippi: January 2020

DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.001.0001

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In the Shadows

In the Shadows

Sirk and the Noir Inclination

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(p.82) Chapter Three In the Shadows
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The Films of Douglas Sirk
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Tom Ryan

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University Press of Mississippi
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781496817983.003.0005

This chapter is a discussion of the Sirk films in which the influence of noir is discernible, less in the plotting than in the way the films have been shot, not only in terms of their use of light and dark but in the visual relationships they establish between individuals or groups and their surroundings.

Keywords:   Film noir, Mise-en-scene, Gaslight films, Samuel Fuller, Intractable material

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