Film Noir
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Film Noir: A Critical Introduction
By Ian Brookes59 Paul Goodman, “Sailor's Money,” in Taylor Stoehr, ed., The Facts of Life: Stories, 1940-1949 (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979), 315. 60 Havighurst, American Veteran Back Home, 31. 61 On profligacy, see Waller, ...
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Film Noir
By Alain Silver, James Ursini, Paul DuncanBeginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, and more), this illustrated handbook provides access to the film ...
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Film Noir
By Andrew SpicerDe Rochemont's first semi-documentary was The House on 92nd Street (1945), directed by Henry Hathaway, which was a critical and popular success. De Rochemont, who had made the 'March of Time' newsreels, imported newsreel techniques: a ...
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Film Noir
By Alain Silver, James UrsiniMit 'Film Noir' bezeichneten die Filmkritiker einen ganz bestimmten Typus des amerikanischen Kriminal- und Detektivfilms der 40er und 50er-Jahre - die Bilder dieser Filme wurden geprägt durch tiefe Schatten und düstere Kulissen.
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Film Noir
By William LuhrThe volume provides a valuable overview of the historical evolution of this genre; it teases out the critical debates over generic and stylistic elements, and charts film noir from its inception in the post-War period through to ...
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Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction
By James Naremore... Robert 107–8 Roundtree, Richard 62–3 Ryan, Robert 10–11 S Sabotage 31 Sade, Marquis de 9 Salles, Walter 16–17 Sallis, James 45 Salt, Waldo 51, 55–6 Sarris, Andrew 14, 65–6, 68 Sartre, Jean-Paul 4–5 Satan Met a Lady 26–7 Savage, ...
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Film Noir
By William LuhrImportant essays like Raymond Durgnat's “Paint It Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir” in 1970 (Durgnat, 1998), Paul Schrader's “Notes on Film Noir” in 1972 (Schrader, 1998), and Janey Place and Lowell Peterson's “Some Visual Motifs ...
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Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction
By James NaremoreTHE BRAIN Michael O'Shea BRANDING Robert Jones THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION Martin ... Lill Anjum THE CELL Terence Allen and Graham Cowling THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe CHAOS Leonard Smith CHARLES DICKENSJenny Hartley ...
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Film Noir
By Andrew SpicerCrowther, B. (1988) Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror (Columbus, London). Davis, M. (1990) City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Verso, London). Dawson, J. (1995) Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool (Applause ...
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Film Noir
By Andrew SpicerAn extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the ...
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Film Noir
By William LuhrAlthough Hollywood had optioned the rights to some of Cain's work in the 1930s, studio heads, wary of censorship, ... Wilder's casting of Edward G. Robinson was significant in that Robinson, known in the early 1930s for brutal gangster ...
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Film Noir
By Alain Silver, James UrsiniCochran , better known for such supporting roles as the gangster who cuckolds Cagney's Cody Jarrett in White Heat , Bill has a physical maturity which belies his stunted emotional growth . The woman , Catherine ( Ruth Roman ) ...
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Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style
By Alain Silver, Elizabeth WardBeginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, etc.), this copiously illustrated handbook provides instant and ...
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Film Noir: The Encyclopedia
By James UrsiniPresents an overview of the characters, themes, and motifs featured in film noir, including contemporary contributions to the genre.
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Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms, and Persons
By Michael L. StephensFilm Noir is a uniquely American genre that has stylistic links to the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s and thematic links to the hard-boiled crime fiction that emerged in...
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Film Noir: A Critical Introduction
By Ian BrookesTania Modleski has argued, the gothic revival that gave rise to the “gaslight” subgenre or cycle coincided with the adaptations of hard-boiled fiction into film noir, and while films noir received considerable critical attention, ...
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Film Noir: Poems
By Jeff RathFilm Noir: Poems
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Film Noir
By Bruce Crowther... sort of movie that is instantly recognizable as film noir, it is perhaps forgivable to make a selection of the best. ... Double Indemnity, for its archetypal portrayal of a spiderwoman weaving her murderous web of sexual corruption; ...
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Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City
By Mark BouldIconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, Lancaster), many of the best directors of the postwar period (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, Welles) and in considering the history and continuing ...
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Film Noir: 100 All-time Favorites
By Paul Duncan, Jürgen MüllerTASCHEN's 100 all-time favorite film noirs and neo-noirs: from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Drive.