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Film noir reader / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Limelight Editions, 2005.Edition: 8th Limelight edDescription: x, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0879101970
  • 9780879101978
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 NOI
Contents:
Towards a definition of film noir / Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton (1955) -- Noir cinema / Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg (1968) -- Paint it black : the family tree of the film noir / Raymond Durgnat (1970) -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader (1972) -- Some visual motifs of film noir / Janey Place and Lowell Peterson (1974) -- No way out : existential motifs in the film noir / Robert Porfirio (1976) -- Film noir : a modest proposal / James Damico (1978) -- Out of what past? : notes on the B film noir / Paul Kerr (1979) -- Phantom lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the masochistic aesthetic / Tony Williams -- John Farrow : anonymous noir / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- At the margins of film noir : Preminger\'s Angel face / Richard Lippe -- The Killers : expressiveness of sound and image in film noir / Robert Porfirio -- Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann / Robert E. Smith -- Expressionist doom in Night and the city / Glenn Erickson -- Kiss me deadly : evidence of a style / Alain Silver -- The post-noir P.I. : The long goodbye and Hickey and Boggs / Elizabeth Ward -- Film noir, voice-over, and the femme fatale / Karen Hollinger -- What is this thing called noir? / Alain Silver and Linda Brookover -- Angst at sixty fields per second / James Ursini -- Miami vice, the legacy of film noir / Jeremy G. Butler -- Kill me again : movement becomes genre / Todd Erickson -- Son of noir : neo-film noir and the neo-B picture / Alain Silver.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.43 NOI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100314138
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.43 NOI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 39002100586198

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

(Limelight). 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.

Includes bibliographical references.

Towards a definition of film noir / Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton (1955) -- Noir cinema / Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg (1968) -- Paint it black : the family tree of the film noir / Raymond Durgnat (1970) -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader (1972) -- Some visual motifs of film noir / Janey Place and Lowell Peterson (1974) -- No way out : existential motifs in the film noir / Robert Porfirio (1976) -- Film noir : a modest proposal / James Damico (1978) -- Out of what past? : notes on the B film noir / Paul Kerr (1979) -- Phantom lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the masochistic aesthetic / Tony Williams -- John Farrow : anonymous noir / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- At the margins of film noir : Preminger\'s Angel face / Richard Lippe -- The Killers : expressiveness of sound and image in film noir / Robert Porfirio -- Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann / Robert E. Smith -- Expressionist doom in Night and the city / Glenn Erickson -- Kiss me deadly : evidence of a style / Alain Silver -- The post-noir P.I. : The long goodbye and Hickey and Boggs / Elizabeth Ward -- Film noir, voice-over, and the femme fatale / Karen Hollinger -- What is this thing called noir? / Alain Silver and Linda Brookover -- Angst at sixty fields per second / James Ursini -- Miami vice, the legacy of film noir / Jeremy G. Butler -- Kill me again : movement becomes genre / Todd Erickson -- Son of noir : neo-film noir and the neo-B picture / Alain Silver.

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