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Film Noir Compendium
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Author : Alain Silver
language : en
Publisher: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books
Release Date : 2016
Film Noir Compendium written by Alain Silver and has been published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Performing Arts categories.
FILM NOIR COMPENDIUM: KEY SELECTIONS FROM THE FILM NOIR READER SERIES
From The Moment They Met It Was Murder
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Author : Alain Silver
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-04-02
From The Moment They Met It Was Murder written by Alain Silver and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Performing Arts categories.
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary. From actual murder to magazine fiction to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is as complex as anything that hit the screen during film noir’s classic period. A 1927 tabloid sensation “crime of the century” inspired journalist and would-be crime-fiction writer James M. Cain to pen a novella. Hollywood quickly bid on the film rights, but throughout the 1930s a strict code of censorship made certain that no studio could green-light a murder melodrama based on real events. Then in 1943 veteran scriptwriter and newly minted director Billy Wilder wanted the story for his third movie. With tentative approval from the studio he hired hardboiled novelist Raymond Chandler to co-write a script that would be acceptable to industry censors. Director Wilder then cajoled a star cast into coming aboard: the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck in her unforgettable turn as the ultimate femme fatale; alongside Fred MacMurray, going against type as her accomplice; and Edward G. Robinson as a dogged claims investigator. Wilder kept Chandler on for the entire shoot, and other key collaborators were cinematographer John Seitz, costume designer Edith Head, and composer Miklôs Rôzsa. With all these talented contributors, the final film became one of the earliest studio noirs to gain critical and commercial success, including being nominated for seven Oscars. It powerfully influenced the burgeoning noir movement, spawned many imitators, and affected the later careers of all its cast and crew. Double Indemnity’s impact on filmmakers and audiences is still felt eight decades since its release. Authors Alain Silver and James Ursini tell the complete, never-before-told history of writing, making, and marketing of Double Indemnity in their latest and most provocative work on film noir: From the Moment They Met It Was Murder.
Film Noir Reader
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Author : Alain Silver
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2002
Film Noir Reader written by Alain Silver and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
Interviewees include Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard), Otto Preminger (Laura), Joseph Lewis (Gun Crazy and The Big Combo), Curtis Bernhardt (Possessed and A Stolen Life), Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet and Crossfire), and Fritz Lang (Scarlet Street and The Woman in the Window).
Noir City Annual 9
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Author : Eddie Muller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-20
Noir City Annual 9 written by Eddie Muller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-20 with categories.
A perfect-bound compendium of essays, interviews, profiles, tributes, and reviews selected from the 2016 issues of NOIR CITY, a quarterly e-magazine exploring all aspects of cinema's most stylish and durable artistic movement - FILM NOIR
Film Noir Guide
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Author : Michael F. Keaney
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-05-20
Film Noir Guide written by Michael F. Keaney and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-20 with Performing Arts categories.
More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book--such films as The Accused, Among the Living, The Asphalt Jungle, Baby Face Nelson, Bait, The Beat Generation, Crossfire, Dark Passage, I Walk Alone, The Las Vegas Story, The Naked City, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, and The Window. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending.
The Big Book Of Noir
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Author : Lee Server
language : en
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Release Date : 1998
The Big Book Of Noir written by Lee Server and has been published by Carroll & Graf Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
A compendium of articles and interviews about film noir and its spin-offs--novels, TV and radio shows, and comic books--pays homage to the leading actors and writers of the genre and includes an essay by Stephen King. Original. 20,000 first printing.
The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition
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Author : Spencer Selby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition written by Spencer Selby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Performing Arts categories.
What started as a handful of American crime movies celebrated by French critics after WW II has grown to become the most resonant and enigmatic of all film categories. Since film noir is not a clear-cut, predefined genre like the western or musical, the term has always been open to confusion and dispute. For decades the cultural influence of noir has been expanding. There are now over a hundred books on the subject, numerous guides and reference works. But nothing in print is comprehensive or even close to inclusive of all classic films that deserve to be called noir. The Worldwide Film Noir Tradition is the most far-reaching and definitive reference to classic noir ever produced. The book includes the following: documentation of nearly 1600 films from 30 countries the most complete listing of American noirs in print the most complete, definitive listing of British noirs the most complete listing of French noirs anywhere the most complete listing of classic noirs from other countries around the world American canon of 250 films, plus identification of the top masterworks from America, Britain and France montage of the history of film noir literature 250 still images from the films, most never before seen in print. This unique, unprecedented work distills a lifetime of study and research by film historian Spencer Selby, whose first book on the subject played a significant role in establishing the baseline parameters of American film noir 30 years ago.
Film Noir Reader 4
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Author : Alain Silver
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date : 2004
Film Noir Reader 4 written by Alain Silver and has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Performing Arts categories.
This text identifies a handful of plot elements that consistently recur within film noir and analyses in depth the memorable pictures that, while being vivid prototypes of certain cinematics themes, bend and break their moulds to find new ways to enthral and frighten us.
Film Noir And The Possibilities Of Hollywood
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Author : Nathaniel Deyo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-05-23
Film Noir And The Possibilities Of Hollywood written by Nathaniel Deyo and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-23 with Performing Arts categories.
Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant distinctions and differences between individual approaches, Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood argues for the importance of staying attuned the varied and variegated formal, aesthetic and thematic strategies at work in individual films. By focusing on these strategies, the book invites readers to consider anew the enabling possibilities of Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era.
Film Noir
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Author : Andrew Spicer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-08
Film Noir written by Andrew Spicer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An 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 Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society. Five chapters are devoted to ‘classic’ film noir (1940-59): chapters explore its contexts of production and reception, its visual style, and its narrative patterns and themes chapters on character types and star performances elucidate noir’s complex construction of gender with its weak, ambivalent males and predatory femmes fatales and also provide a detailed analysis of three noir auteurs, - Anthony Mann, Robert Siodmak and Fritz Lang Three chapters investigate ‘neo-noir’ and British film noir: chapters trace the complex evolution of ‘neo-noir’ in American cinema, from the modernist critiques of Night Moves and Taxi Driver, to the postmodern hybridity of contemporary noir including Seven, Pulp Fiction and Memento the final chapter surveys the development of British film noir, a significant and virtually unknown cinema, stretching from the thirties to Mike Hodges’ Croupier Films discussed include both little known examples and seminal works such as Double Indemnity, Scarlet Street, Kiss Me Deadly and Touch of Evil. A final section provides a guide to further reading, an extensive bibliography and a list of over 500 films referred to in the text. Lucidly written, Film Noir is an accessible, informative and stimulating introduction that will have a broad appeal to undergraduates, cinéastes, film teachers and researchers.