Foster Hirsch
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"[...] Foster Hirsch (1999: 9) interprets the mixture of eros and thanatos in which neo-noir trades as a morality tale - or paranoiac warning - about sexual practices: "the traditional link in noir narratives between sex and catastrophe is no longer merely symbolic or moralistic," he argues. "[E]rotic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s are metaphors for the dangers of sex in the time of AIDS. A simmering offstage 'noise,' like World War II in 1940s noir, AIDS is a significant structuring absence" (Hirsch 1999: 188-9)."--"Neo-noir and erotic thrillers" (2006 or pre 2006) by Linda Ruth Williams |
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Foster Hirsch is the author of sixteen books on subjects related to theatre and movies. A native of California, Hirsch received his B.A. from Stanford University, and holds M.F.A, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Hirsch joined the English Department of Brooklyn College in 1967, and in 1973 became one of the first professors to join the school's newly established Film Department. He has also been associated with the Pine Bluff Film Festival since its inception in 1994.
Selected books
- The Hollywood Epic (1979)
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of the Screen (Da Capo Press, 1983)
- A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio (W. W. Norton, 1984)
- Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- Acting Hollywood Style (Harry N. Abrams, 1991)
- Film as Film by V.F. Perkins (1972), new introduction by Foster Hirsch (Da Capo, 1993)
- The Boys from Syracuse: The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire Southern Illinois University Press, 1998
- Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir (Limelight Editions, 1999)
- Love, Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen (Da Capo Press, 2001)
- Kurt Weill - On Stage: From Berlin to Broadway (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
- Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King (2007)
