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Author
Publisher
The Free Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Replete with sinister and scintillating photos, this book handsomely and uniquely illustrates the graphic impact of film noir in images that practically speak for themselves. Cover hard-boiled detectives, tough dames, mean streets, and seedy gangsters that populated movie classics like The Maltese Falcon (1940), Double Indemnity (1944), The Naked City (1948), and Touch of Evil (1958). It is arranged under such classifications as "Dark Mirror," "Night...
Author
Series
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Muller--host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur--takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore"--
Series
Publisher
Acme DVD Works
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
The strange woman: A strong-willed young lady in 19th century Maine affects the lives of three very different men.
Dishonored lady: A glamorous but neurotic art director for a leading women's magazine finds herself under suspicion of murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Clips from noir classics and little-known gems, plus interviews with modern noir aficionados like directors Christopher Nolan and Frank Miller, writers James Ellroy and Brian Helgeland and others shape this multifaceted exploration of the movie style that grew out of the hard realities of post-World War II life"--Container.
14) Pulp cinema
Publisher
All Day Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Seduction! Betrayal! Murder! A compilation of forty five original coming attractions from the golden age of film noir.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly...
18) Pulp fiction
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Series
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. The lady vanishes: During a transcontinental train trip in Europe, a young woman is alarmed to discover a passenger has disappeared ; The farmer's wife: (silent) A lonely widowed farmer is looking for a new bride, not realizing the housekeeper helping him with his search is secretly in love with him ; The manxman: (silent) A romantic tale of intrigue involving a love triangle concerning three residents of the Isle of Man ; Alfred Hitchcock...
