Search results for “[Subject: noir]”

• Author(s): Spencer Selby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The most complete reference to the dark 40s and 50s stylistic dramas. The first section has a lengthy analytical ...

• Author(s): Robert Polito • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: CrimeCollects: CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40sThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThey Shoot Horses, Don't T...

• Author(s): Robert B. Pippin • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thema...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFor this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films fr...

• Author(s): Robert Polito • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - General"The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States." -- Ed Gorman Evolvi...

• Author(s): Paul Meehan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's...

• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Film noir is a uniquely American genre that has stylistic links to the German expressionist cinema of the...

• Author(s): Derek Sculthorpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noi...

• Author(s): David Meuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most opti...

• Author(s): Philip Kerr • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralDetective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mys...

• Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen • Publisher: MIXBZ • Publisher Imprint: MIXBZ • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Thrillers - SuspenseCopenhagen's Detective Carl M rck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from th...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans ...

• Author(s): Ronald Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Film noir is a particularly American stylistic phenomenon (although named by French film critics) that permeate...

• Author(s): Michael F. Keaney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this ex...

• Author(s): William Hare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Los Angeles is an ideal city for film noir for both economic and aesthetic reasons. The largest metropolitan area ...

• Author(s): Frank Krutnik • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTaking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging are...

• Author(s): Michael F. Keaney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same...

• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This filmography covers Columbia Pictures' noir titles released in the classic noir era, October ...

• Author(s): Imogen Sara Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores t...

• Author(s): William Hare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that str...

• Author(s): James McKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more wi...

• Author(s): Eddie Muller • Publisher: Abrams Books • Publisher Imprint: Abrams Books • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir is "a gloriously lurid collection" (Seattle T...

• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Collections & AnthologiesFamous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companio...

• Author(s): Per Hellgren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Marxist theories have had a profound influence on crime fiction, beginning with the works of the ...

• Author(s): Paul Meehan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying t...

• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two ...

• Author(s): Derek Sculthorpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Claire Trevor (1910-2000) is best remembered as the alluring blonde femme fatale in such iconic noir films as Murder,...

• Author(s): Kevin L. Stoehr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This book explores the idea of nihilism, emphasized by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, ...

• Author(s): Jessica Fletcher • Publisher: Obsidian • Publisher Imprint: Obsidian • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Women SleuthsWeeks after young Cabot Cove singer Cyndi Gabriel is sent on scholarship to Nashville, everyone is stunned when she'...

• Author(s): Robert J. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of fil...

• Author(s): Rhonda V. Wilcox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism During the course of its three seasons, Veronica Mars captured the attention of fans and...

• Author(s): Alan K. Rode • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The iconic actor Charles McGraw appeared in over 140 roles on films and television, including...

• Author(s): Leon Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Techniques - Cinematography & Videography Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer J...

• Author(s): William McIlvanney • Publisher: Europa Editions • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"So searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal ...

• Author(s): Walter Mosley • Publisher: Berkley / Nal • Publisher Imprint: Berkley / Nal • BISAC: African American & Black - Mystery & DetectiveAfrican-American noir is at its finest in this gripping crime novel from Walter Mosley's New Y...

• Author(s): Gene Kerrigan • Publisher: World Noir • Publisher Imprint: World Noir • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Hard-BoiledFrankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. A small time thug, he thinks-to the extent he can-that ki...