Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir / Gene D. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Gene D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Crime films--History and criticism.

Crime films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginning with Stranger on the Third Floor in 1940. However, since film noir is too wide-ranging, it cannot be kept within the narrow limits of the official canon that has been established by film historians. Consequently, several neglected movies made during the classic noir period need to be re-evaluated as noir films. In Out of the Shadows: Expanding.

Contents:

Prologue: overlooked noir

City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir

Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films

Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir

John Huston: The Maltese falcon

Stuart Heisler: The glass key

Edward Buzzell: Song of the thin man

Darkness at noon: representative noir films. Fritz Lang: Ministry of fear and Scarlet Street

Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a train

George Cukor: A double life

Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard

Robert Siodmak: The killers (1946)

Don Siegel: The killers (1964)

Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a murder

Fred Zinnemann: Act of violence

Stanley Kubrick: The killing

Orson Welles: The stranger and Touch of evil

The lower depths: the rise of neo-noir. Dashiell Hammett and neo-noir: The Dain curse and Hammett

Anthony Minghella: The talented Mr. Ripley

Liliana Cavani: Ripley's game

Afterword / by James Welsh.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

979-82-16-27281-6

1-283-30261-6

9786613302618

0-8108-8190-X

OCLC:

760270460