Film Noir
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Film Noir: a Very Short Introduction
By James Naremore"Film noir is one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history.
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Film Noir: A Critical Introduction
By Ian BrookesThis book is designed to tackle those complexities in a critical introduction that takes into account the problems of straightforward definition and classification.
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Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
By Jennifer Fay, Justus NielandThis book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture of literary and cinematic translation, and its postwar consolidation in the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin ...
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Film Noir
By Homer B. PetteyHomer B. Pettey. Recap of our Writing on Film Noir Books in Progress Jigsaw: A Critical History of Writing about Film Noir (Pendragon, 2015) American Neo-Noir: The Movie Never Ends (Applause, 2015) Books Published Film Noir the Directors ...
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Film Noir: The Encyclopedia
By Alain Silver, Carl MacekPresents an overview of the characters, themes, and motifs featured in film noir, including contemporary contributions to the genre.
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Film Noir
By Eddie RobsonFILM NOIR - SOME OF THE FINEST, MOST INNOVATIVE AND MOST INTERESTING FILMS THAT HOLLYWOOD HAS EVER PRODUCED In the 1940s and 50s Hollywood showed its dark side with a...
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Film Noir: Films of Trust and Betrayal
By Paul DuncanAs well as an introductory essay on the origins of Film Noir, this Pocket Essential discusses all the classics from the heyday of the movement in detail and includes a handy reference section for readers who want to know more.
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Film Noir: The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity and More
By Paul DuncanThe Pocket Essential Film Noir charts the progression of the noir style as a vehicle for film-makers who wanted to record the darkness at the heart of American society as it emerged from World War to the Cold War.
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Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style
By Alain Silver, ElizabethM WardThis updated edition of the classic reference guide to film noir includes 96 photographs from classic films, 225 new listings and an essay on "Neo-noir in the '90s".
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Film Noir
By Pettey Homer B. PetteyThis book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-twentieth century popularization and influence on contemporary ...
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Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons
By Michael L. StephensFilms, directors, actors, producers, screenwriters, art directors, themes, plot devices and many other elements are contained in this encyclopedic reference work.
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Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror
By Bruce CrowtherFilm Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror
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Film Noir: Light and Shadow
By Alain Silver, James UrsiniThis book focuses on the visual style of the classic period through essays that consider individual films, directors, stylistic elements, or subgroups of movies in the film noir style.
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Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
By Jennifer Fay, Justus Nieland... noir responds to the broader social-historical condition of modernity, modernization itself doesn't happen across nations at the same time. Nor does it pose identical threats to more traditional forms of cultural and political life or spawn ...
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Film noir
By Sławomir BobowskiFilm noir