Film noir compendium

Applause Theatre and Cinema Books

2016

441 p.

9781495058981

Machine generated contents note: Classic Texts --Crime Certainly Pays on the Screen (1945) / Lloyd Shearer --A New Kind of Police Drama: the Criminal Adventure (1946) / Nino Frank --Americans Also Make Noir Films (1946) / Jean-Pierre Chartier --The Evolution of the Crime Film (1955) / Claude Chabrol --Towards a Definition of Film Noir (1955) / Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton --Noir Cinema (1968) / Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg --Paint it Black: The Family Tree of the Film Noir (1970) / Raymond Durgnat --Notes On Film Noir (1972) / Paul Schrader --Three Faces of Film Noir (1972) / Tom Flinn --Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir (1974) / Janey Place & Lowell Peterson --Violence and the Bitch Goddess (1974) / Stephen Farber --No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the Film Noir (1976) / Robert G. Porfirio --Film Noir: A Modest Proposal (1978) / James Damico --Out of What Past? Notes on the B Film Noir (1979) / Paul Kerr --The Filmic Transaction: On the Openings of Film Noirs (1983) / Marc Vernet --Film Noir: Style and Content (1988) / Dale E. Ewing, Jr. --Kill Me Again: Movement Becomes Genre (1990) / Todd Erickson --Son of Noir: Neo-Film Noir and the Neo-B Picture (1992) / Alain Silver --Lounge Time: Postwar Crises and the Chronotope of Film Noir (1998) / Vivian Sobchack --"Lounge Time" Reconsidered: Spatial Discontinuity and Temporal Contingency in Out of the Past (2004) / R. Barton Palmer --Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama (2004) / J. P. Telotte --Manufacturing Heroines: Gothic Victims and Working Women in Classic Noir Films (2004) / Sheri Chinen Biesen --The Strange Case of Film Noir (2012) / Robert G. Porfirio --Case Studies --Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style / Alain Silver --At the Margins of Film Noir: Preminger's Angel Face / Richard Lippe --The Killers: Expressiveness of Sound and Image in Film Noir / Robert G. Porfirio --What Is This Thing Called Noir? / Alain Silver and Linda Brookover --Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic / Tony Williams --Noir 101 / Philip Gaines --Ride the Pink Horse: Money, Mischance, Murder, and the Monads of Film Noir / Alain Silver --Dark Jazz: Music in the Film Noir / Robert G. Porfirio --Creativity and Evaluation: Two Film Noirs of the Fifties / Robin Wood --Film Noir, Voice-Over, and the Femme Fatale / Karen Hollinger --The Camouflaged Femme Fatale: The File on Thelma Jordon and Pushover / Elizabeth Ward

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