Film Noir Reader
by Silver, Alain; Ursini, Alain; Ursini, JamesFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-01
Publisher(s): LIMELIGHT EDITIONS
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Summary
This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Towards a Definition of Film Noir | p. 17 |
| Noir Cinema | p. 27 |
| Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir | p. 37 |
| Notes on Film Noir | p. 53 |
| Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir | p. 65 |
| No Way Out: Existential Motifs in the Film Noir | p. 77 |
| Film Noir: A Modest Proposal | p. 95 |
| Out of What Past? Notes on the B film noir | p. 107 |
| Phantom Lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the Masochistic Aesthetic | p. 129 |
| John Farrow: Anonymous Noir | p. 145 |
| At the Margins of Film Noir: Preminger's Angel Face | p. 161 |
| The Killers: Expressiveness of Sound and Image in Film Noir | p. 177 |
| Mann in the Dark: the Films Noir of Anthony Mann | p. 189 |
| Expressionist Doom in Night and the City | p. 203 |
| Kiss Me Deadly: Evidence of a Style | p. 209 |
| The Post-Noir P.I.: The Long Goodbye and Hickey and Boggs | p. 237 |
| Film Noir, Voice-over, and the Femme Fatale | p. 243 |
| What is This Called Noir? | p. 261 |
| Angst at Sixty Fields per Second | p. 275 |
| Miami Vice, The Legacy of Film Noir | p. 289 |
| Kill Me Again: Movement becomes Genre | p. 307 |
| Son of Noir: Neo-Film Noir and the Neo-B Picture | p. 331 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 339 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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