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(Jules Dassin, 1955)
Alastair Phillips
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Published in 2009 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd
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Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyright © 2009 Alastair Phillips
The right of Alastair Phillips to be identified as author of this work has been asserted
by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part
thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or
transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
ISBN: 978 1 84885 055 2
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Library of Congress catalog: available
Copy-edited and typeset by Oxford Publishing Services, Oxford
Printed and bound in India by Thomson Press India Ltd
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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Plot synopsis
ix
Introduction
1
1 The Route to Rififi
5
A cosmopolitan life
5
Hollywood and film noir
6
The politics of exile
9
The tradition of French film noir
11
Auguste le Breton and the Série Noire
16
Production history
20
Notes
28
2 Reading Rififi
33
Beginnings
33
Du rififi chez les hommes and the aesthetics
of the heist thriller
41
Space and genre: the nightclub
50
Space and genre: the city
57
Men and trouble
65
A transnational film noir?
74
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Notes
76
3 Reviewing Rififi
79
A surprise success
79
‘A film without indulgence’
82
The politics of realism
85
Audiences, trade and culture
90
Notes
94
4 Reviving Rififi
97
After Du rififi chez les hommes
97
Influences
99
The rififi brand
101
Rififi returns
102
Notes
103
Appendix 1: Credits
105
Appendix 2: Jules Dassin filmography
107
Appendix 3: Auguste Le Breton filmography
108
Appendix 4: Cited films
109
Appendix 5: ‘Rififi à travers le monde’
112
Appendix 6: Select bibliography
113
Index
117
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