A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) PDF Author: Raymond Borde
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872864122
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

Detour

Detour PDF Author: Noah William Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1844572390
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
In classic noir style, Detour features mysterious deaths, changes of identity, an unforgettable femme fatale called Vera (Ann Savage), and, in Roberts, a wretched, masochistic antihero."

Film Noir

Film Noir PDF Author: James Naremore
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198791744
Category : Film noir
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Film noir is one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history. First associated with Hollywood thrillers of teh 1940s and 50s, film noir has become fully international in its nature and appeal, attracting the interest of great directors right up to our present time. In this Very Short Introduction James Naremore analyses classic examples of the films, as well as a few lesser known noir pieces, highlighting their key themes and styles, and their major literary sources. He considers their methods of dealing with censorship, and looks to the future of noir in a world of digital media and video streaming."--Provided by publisher.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles PDF Author: Orson Welles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
It is only in the editing studio that he possesses "absolute control." With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, and The Third Man, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. Book jacket.

Black & White & Noir

Black & White & Noir PDF Author: Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The first book to treat issues of race and ethnicity as related to noir, offering a cultural history of twentieth-century America through episodic readings of films, photographs, and literature.

Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir

Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir PDF Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046880
Category : African American motion picture producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy, film studies, and cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.

More Than Night

More Than Night PDF Author: James Naremore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254023
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
"Supplies the first study of film noir that achieves the sort of intellectual seriousness, depth of research, degree of critical insight, and level of writing that this group of films deserves."—Tom Gunning, Modernism and Modernity

The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

The Cambridge Companion to Film Music PDF Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094518
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439

Book Description
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

The Gangster Film Reader

The Gangster Film Reader PDF Author: Alain Silver
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879103323
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428

Book Description
In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year's time, Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters, the situations, and the icons-from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls-established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that remain in force to this day. As with their Film Noir Reader series, using both reprints of seminal articles and new pieces, editors Silver and Ursini have assembled a group of essays that presents an exhaustive overview of this still vital genre. Reprints of work by such well-known film historians as Robin Wood, Andrew Sarris, Carlos Clarens, Paul Schrader, and Stuart Kaminsky explore the evolution of the gangster film through the 1970s and The Godfather. Parts 2 and 3 comprise two dozen newer articles, most of them written expressly for this volume by Ursini and Silver. These case studies and thematic analyses, from White Heat to the remake of Scarface to "The Sopranos," complete the anthology.

The Film Book

The Film Book PDF Author: Ronald Bergan
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN: 9780241484838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.
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