| Description |
xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes filmography. |
| Contents |
Prologue: overlooked noir -- City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir -- Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films -- Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir -- John Huston: The Maltese falcon -- Stuart Heisler: The glass key -- Edward Buzzell: Song of the thin man -- Darkness at noon: representative noir films. Fritz Lang: Ministry of fear and Scarlet Street -- Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a train -- George Cukor: A double life -- Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard -- Robert Siodmak: The killers (1946) -- Don Siegel: The killers (1964) -- Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a murder -- Fred Zinnemann: Act of violence -- Stanley Kubrick: The killing -- Orson Welles: The stranger and Touch of evil -- The lower depths: the rise of neo-noir. Dashiell Hammett and neo-noir: The Dain curse and Hammett -- Anthony Minghella: The talented Mr. Ripley -- Liliana Cavani: Ripley's game -- Afterword / by James Welsh. |
| Subject |
Film noir -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780810881891 cloth alkaline paper |
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0810881896 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780810881907 ebook |
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081088190X ebook |
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