The Rise of 'Bright Noir'. Redemption and Moral Optimism in American Contemporary TV Noir

García-Martínez, A.N. (Alberto Nahum)

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Keywords:

Materias Investigacion::Comunicación::Comunicación audiovisual
Materias Investigacion::Arte y Humanidades::Generalidades
Television
Aesthetics
Film Noir
TV Series

Issue Date:

2018

Publisher:

Palgrave

Publisher Version:

https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319968865

ISBN:

978-3-319-96887-2
978-3-319-96886-5

ISSN:

2634-615X

Citation:

García, Alberto N. "The Rise of 'Bright Noir'. Redemption and Moral Optimism in American Contemporary TV Noir", in European Television Crime Drama and Beyond, edited by Kim Toft HansenSteven PeacockSue Turnbull, Palgrave, 2018, pp. 41-60.

Abstract

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.

URI:

https://hdl.handle.net/10171/61327

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