Fatalism In American Film Noir by Robert B. Pippin
Some Cinematic Philosophy
A philosophical reading of classic film noir, arguing that its signature mood of doom expresses a modern crisis of agency, responsibility, and self-knowledge rather than supernatural fate. Through close attention to narrative devices like voice-over, flashback, and the pull of desire, it shows how characters become complicit in the traps that ensnare them, revealing a moral psychology of entanglement and hindsight. The result reframes noir fatalism as a distinctly modern predicament: how ordinary choices narrow possibilities until catastrophe feels inevitable.
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- 2012
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