Author: Raymond BordePublisher: 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.
Film Noir
Author: James NaremorePublisher: 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.
Detour
Author: Noah William IsenbergPublisher: 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."
Black & White & Noir
Author: Paula RabinowitzPublisher: 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.
Orson Welles
Author: Orson WellesPublisher: 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.
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir
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.
Notions of Genre
Author: Barry Keith GrantPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477311084
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand their conventions and how they speak to, for, and about the culture that produces them. While this early writing on genre film was often unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and judgmental, it nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and valuable today. Notions of Genre gathers the most important early writing on film genre and genre films published between 1945 and 1969. It includes articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, Andr� Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in academic disciplines such as history, sociology, and theater. Their writings address major issues in genre studies, including definition, representation, ideology, audiences, and industry practices, across genres ranging from comedy and westerns to horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and thrillers. The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre films, Notions of Genre will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural studies, and popular culture.
More Than Night
Author: James NaremorePublisher: 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
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Author: Robert Phillip KolkerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195169190
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook 'brings together critical essays on this influential and teachable film. The essays not only elaborate on the complexities of the film, but represent the spectrum of film criticism, including an analysis of its music and close readings illustrated by many stills from the film.
Author: Mervyn Cooke