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11. With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders’ The American Friend as Noir Allegory

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Abstract

This chapter examines Wim Wenders’ The American Friend (1977) in the context of European late modernity in the 1970s and the history of film noir. If noir typically offers a negative allegory in which neither the position of the criminal nor that of the law is a positive option, the Ripley series marks a striking mutation in this allegory of failure, with the protagonist occupying a position both within and against the system. Highsmith’s undoing of noir allegory is in turn reworked by Wenders in order to stage an allegory about the false promises of American-style modernization, as Ripley drives the plot forward in a manner suggestive of the power the U.S. has had in shaping European modernity from the Marshall Plan forward.

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Metadaten
Titel
With Friends Like These: Wim Wenders’ The American Friend as Noir Allegory
verfasst von
Christopher Breu
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Patricia Highsmith on Screen

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96049-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96050-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96050-0_11