Film Noir Reader

by Silver, Alain; Ursini, Alain; Ursini, James

• ISBN13: 9780879101978
• ISBN10: 0879101970
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: LIMELIGHT EDITIONS

Summary

This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Towards a Definition of Film Noir	p. 17
Noir Cinema	p. 27
Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir	p. 37
Notes on Film Noir	p. 53
Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir	p. 65
No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the Film Noir	p. 77
Film Noir: A Modest Proposal	p. 95
Out of What Past? Notes on the B film noir	p. 107
Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic	p. 129
John Farrow: Anonymous Noir	p. 145
At the Margins of Film Noir: Preminger's Angel Face	p. 161
The Killers: Expressiveness of Sound and Image in Film Noir	p. 177
Mann in the Dark: the Films Noir of Anthony Mann	p. 189
Expressionist Doom in Night and the City	p. 203
Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style	p. 209
The Post-Noir P.I.: The Long Goodbye and Hickey and Boggs	p. 237
Film Noir, Voice-over, and the Femme Fatale	p. 243
What is This Called Noir?	p. 261
Angst at Sixty Fields per Second	p. 275
Miami Vice, The Legacy of Film Noir	p. 289
Kill Me Again: Movement becomes Genre	p. 307
Son of Noir: Neo-Film Noir and the Neo-B Picture	p. 331
Notes on Contributors	p. 339
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