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The Long Goodbye
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More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts
"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s--melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century..
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Film Noir (Inside Film)
"Yes, I killed him. I killed him for the money and for a woman. I didn't get the money, and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?"-- Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity, 1944 - An examination of 'classic' film noir (1940-59) which explores its contexts of production and reception, its visual style, narrative patterns and themes and character development.
- Traces the complex development of 'neo-noir' from Night Moves and Taxi Driver to Pulp Fiction and Memento.
- Is an accessible, informative and stimulating introduction Film Noir
This is an examination of a celebrated, but also contested, body of films whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. A 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. Andrew Spicer discusses 'classic' film noir (1940-59) and investigates 'neo-noir' and British film noir. 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 book. Film Noir is an accessible, informative and stimulating introduction that will have a broad appeal to fans and enthusiasts of the film noir genre. Andrew Spicer is at the University of West England.
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The Rough Guide to Film Noir 1 (Rough Guide Reference)
From dimly lit streets and glamorous apartments to world-weary detectives and irresistible femmes fatales, The Rough Guide to Film Noir illuminates every corner of cinema’s darkest and most compelling genre. From early masterpieces like Double Indemnity and Kiss Me Deadly through to neo-noir classics such as Chinatown and LA Confidential, this book highlights all the groundbreaking noir movies. There are profiles of legendary performers such as Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck, great directors like Fritz Lang plus key cinematographers, composers and designers. Complete with website listings and books for further reading, this Rough Guide takes a fascinating look at the noir movies made in the Classical Hollywood era and beyond..
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Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination A place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, who led readers on a guided tour of the seamier side of motion pictures in Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema, now takes us on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, when art, politics, scandal, style--and brilliant craftsmanship--produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology. .
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Drawing Crime Noir: For Comics and Graphic Novels
• Strong, cutting-edge imagery shows artists how to make crime pay • Superstar author Christopher Hart explores a new genre • Perfect for anyone interested in drawing for comic books or graphic novels Aspiring artists, lonely, desperate—this is your chance to grab the gold ring of the hottest style around: noir. Windswept streets, dark shadowy figures, reckless women, gleaming pistols, men without conscience, boulevards of fear...they're all here in Drawing Crime Noir. Extensive instruction, including a complete tutorial on how to turn an ordinary comic-book scene into a crime noir scene, shows how to create the moody world of noir, from using shadows to create intense moods and suspense, to drawing the swirling capes and cloaked faces of tormented superheroes; the trench coats and dark glasses of nihilistic antiheroes; the dark suits of mobbed-up politicians on the take and the hit men who keep order; and the form-fitting dresses and snakeskin shoes of the sexy women who would kill a man as soon as kiss him..
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It's a Bitter Little World
Everything you need to know in life you can learn from film noir. And everything you can learn from film noir, you can find in It's a Bitter Little World. This collection of quotes: -Includes both classic as well as contemporary quotes, providing a complete history of noir -Organizes quotes by themed chapters and by decades, giving readers an inside view into how noir has developed -Shares new celebrity quotes created especially for this book from the likes of Pat Sajak, Harry Knowles, Wil Wheaton, Tara Santana, Gary Hart, '60s counterculture legend Paul Krassner, and more With an eye-catching, sleek design, this book will appeal to lovers of film noir and gift buyers..
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