Book Description
A guide to the reconfiguration of film noir, featuring films like Sexy Beast, Reservoir Dogs and Blood Simple. If film noir is a genre of mid-century black and white urban crime thrillers populated by mysterious women and tortured, hard-bitten P.I.s, a world of dark corners, back alleys, trench coats and shadows, then film soleil is its adaptation for late-century tastes, using as its most common setting sun-beaten highways cutting mercilessly through the desert, its women in cowboy boots and its men deranged by their biological drives.