Search results for “[Subject: noir]”

• Author(s): R. Barton Palmer | Homer B. Pettey • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorAlfred Hitchcock was a major figure in the development and flourishing of film noi...

• Author(s): D. Broe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismClass, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film w...

• Author(s): Stephen Faison • Publisher: Cambria Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambria Press • BISAC: GeneralThe prevailing view is that existentialism is a product of post-World War II Europe and had no significant presence in the United States bef...

• Author(s): Eddie Muller • Publisher: Running Press Adult • Publisher Imprint: Running Press Adult • BISAC: WomenIn this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller--Turner Classic Movies host and author of...

• Author(s): Alain Silver • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essen...

• Author(s): Ludwig Noiré • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Doppelnatur der Causalität" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Ronald Schwartz • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five f...

• Author(s): Jürgen Müller | Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEnter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betr...

• Author(s): Bernie Dowling • Publisher: Bent Banana Books • Publisher Imprint: Bent Banana Books • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionBernie Dowling's latest in his award-winning series on film noir traces its evolution from the curse of Wo...

• Author(s): Jason Y. Ng • Publisher: Akashic Books • Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Collections & AnthologiesAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004...

• Author(s): Stacy Gillis • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Mystery & Detective FictionWhat is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally fo...

• Author(s): Andrew Spicer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilm Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cul...

• Author(s): Orson Welles • Publisher: Maple Spring Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Maple Spring Publishing • BISAC: American - GeneralFilm noir: the name comes from the French for "black" or "dark film." It points to the central feature of the g...

• Author(s): Eddie Muller • Publisher: Running Press Adult • Publisher Imprint: Running Press Adult • BISAC: Film - Genres - CrimeThis revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour...

• Author(s): Thomas Wörtche • Publisher: Akashic Books • Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Collections & AnthologiesAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2...

• Author(s): Harold Hellwig • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: American - GeneralIn this book, Harold Hellwig analyzes film noir, outlining the major genres which it includes: the city and the detective; sc...

• Author(s): Andrew Spicer • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceThe Historical Dictionary of Film Noir is a comprehensive guide that ranges from 1940 to present day neo-noir. It consists of a ...

• Author(s): Padraic Killeen • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismInvoking key concepts from the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark In...

• Author(s): Claire Gorrara • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: European - FrenchThrilling, absorbing, and full of bizarre plot twists and motivations, the roman noir is crime fiction at its most exciting. In this liv...

• Author(s): Hervé Delouche • Publisher: Akashic Books • Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Collections & AnthologiesFeaturing brand-new stories by: Cloé Mehdi, Karim Madani, Insa Sané, Christian Roux, Marc Vi...

• Author(s): Deborah Walker-Morrison • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrench film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood co...

• Author(s): Lee Clark Mitchell • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThe argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled ficti...

• Author(s): James J. Ward | Cynthia J. Miller • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilm noir has always been associated with urban landsc...

• Author(s): Jim Heimann • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - HistoricalIn the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater to...

• Author(s): J. Nelson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing ...

• Author(s): Tony Magistrale | Michael J. Blouin | Stephen King • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Mystery & Detective FictionOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has...

• Author(s): Sue Short • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Gender StudiesFrom the Back CoverThis book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in ta...

• Author(s): Michael McGarrity • Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc • Publisher Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc • BISAC: NoirSam Monroe thought his steamy love affair with Manhattan socialite Laura Nielson was dead and buried, but when she didn'...

• Author(s): Orly Clerge • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThe expansion of the Black American middle class...

• Author(s): Geoff Mayer • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsWhen viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in Th...

• Author(s): Mark A. Vieira • Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Running Press Book Publishers • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismYou know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the ...

• Author(s): Sheri Chinen Biesen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismShadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of fil...

• Author(s): M. Keith Booker • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPublishers Weekly praises this deep dive into classic noir films, noting...

• Author(s): Lee Horsley • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Mystery & Detective FictionWhat is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering s...

• Author(s): Alistair Rolls • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: European - GeneralA longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a dev...

• Author(s): Elyce Rae Helford | Christopher Weedman • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhile few can deny its incalculable influence on popular filmmakin...