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.
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.
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
Author: Scott AdamsThe Gangster Film Reader
Author: Alain SilverPublisher: 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.
