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Film noir prototypes

Title
Film noir prototypes / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
Publication
  • Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC., 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Silver, Alain, 1947-
  • Ursini, James
Description
350 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Alternative Title
Film noir prototypes : origins of the movement
Subject
  • Film noir > History and criticism
  • Film noir
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Alain Silver -- German expressionism and film noir / Robert G. Porfirio -- Looking back--Victorinoir : modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations / Julie Grossman -- Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis / Alain Silver -- Paleo-noir / Homer B. Pettey -- Film noir, American painting and photography : a question of influence? / Tom Ryall -- Proto-noir--DeMille style / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Proto-noir pictorialism in the 1930s films of John Ford / Alain Silver -- Universal horror and film noir--The mummy and The black cat / James Ursini -- Film noir graphics : origins / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Hitchcock before noir : Hitchcock's gaumont British thrillers as film noir prototypes / Richard Edwards -- Noir revealed : Robert Florey and The face behind the mask / James V. D'Arc and Todd Erickson -- Crime and punishment--the mother of all noir / James Ursini -- The gangster in film noir / Alain Silver -- Some French films of the occupation : the silence of the noir / Tony Williams -- That sinking feeling : Cornell Woolrich and the uncanny noir mood / Marlisa Santos -- Women and film noir : pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman -- "Rawness to romance" : "gothic" thrillers as film noir prototypes from Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- The rogue cop film : theft, adaptation, and prototypicality in Where the sidewalk ends / Robert Miklitsch -- The "House of death" in print and on-screen : Double indemnity as journalism, fiction, and film / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- The influence of an émigré film noir auteur : Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in Act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen.
Call Number
MFL 18-4549
ISBN
  • 9781495092749
  • 1495092747
LCCN
2017058777
OCLC
1019840554
Title
Film noir prototypes / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
Publisher
Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC., 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Silver, Alain, 1947- editor.
Ursini, James, editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 18-4549
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