L.A. Noir

  • L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
    By William Hare

    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 ...

  • L.A. Noir: The City as Character
    By Alain Silver, James Ursini

    The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil in the classic period (1940-1960) to such neo-noir notables as ...

  • L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels
    By William Hare

    Having performed on Broadway in David Rabe's Hurlyburly , in the film version , Spacey was the coolly ruthless opposite to Hollywood Hills roommate Sean Penn , who was given to waves of emotion . Spacey won an Oscar for Best Supporting ...

  • L.A. Noir: The City as Character
    By Alain Silver, James Ursini

    The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil in the classic period (1940-1960) to such neo-noir notables as ...

  • L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
    By John Buntin

    Department of Special Collections and Digital Collections, Department of Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Rappleye, Charles. All-American Mafioso. The Johnny Rosselli Story. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

  • L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
    By John Buntin

    A journalist and case writer presents a social history of Los Angeles, from Prohibition to the Watts riots, focusing on the long-running war between notorious gangster Mickey Cohen, and the man who would become the city's most famous police ...

  • L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy: Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, Suicide Hill
    By James Ellroy

    Lloyd Hopkins stumbles on a horrifying conspiracy of corruption and betrayal- among his own colleagues. Ellroy's three great early novels are available in one volume for the first time - the books that led up to his LA Quartet.