Murder, passion, and criminal enterprise are presented here at their darkest, directly from the most talented writers and artists in crime comics! In these thirteen pitch-black noir stories, you'll find deadly conmen and embittered detectives converging on femme fatales and accidental murderers, all presented in sharp black and white by masters of the craft. Featuring stories by Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and many more of crime comics' top talent!
In the history of film, I can think of no other auteur, not even Ford or Renoir, Hitchcock's greatest contemporaries, who achieved such brilliance in these opposing genres. That Hitchcock reached his greatest heights during the period ...
with its 'scopic regime' is, of course, particularly well suited to the exploration of the voyeuristic ... 1999), and also in the noir fiction of writers like Andrew Vachss, Robert Ferrigno, James Ellroy, Anthony Frewin and Ted Lewis.
This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume.
... 131 Documentaries , 19 ; color , 170 ; photography style of , 150 Domesticity , 84 , 250 , 253 , 268 , 292663 Doppelgänger themes , 266 Dos Passos , John , 23 , 24 Double feature era , 140-43 Douglas , Kirk , 182 , 183 ( fig . ) ...
Offers a reference guide to film noir, extending from relevant films from before the genre was established to contemporary neonoirs and other types of film derived from the genre.
Presents a collection of crime stories inspired by the area of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Lancaster was victimized by a sting perpetrated by Dekker with the woman who was actually his wife, Gardner. The ex-fighter was perceived as the individual who absconded with the funds, which were actually shared in their entirety by ...
A collection of crime stories that take place in Seattle.
“Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films,” in G. Mast and M. Cohen (Eds.), Film Theory and Criticism.' Introductory Readings (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985, 3rd ed.): 503-20. Chandler, Raymond.
"Twelve seasoned and internationally known--Thai and Western--writers have come together to make a powerful collection of crime fiction short stories that portray the dark side of this Asian metropolis"--P. [4] of cover.