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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Silver, Alain, 1947- editor.

Ursini, James, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film noir--History and criticism.

Film noir.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

350 pages ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Film noir prototypes : origins of the movement

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC., 2018.

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 émigré film noir auteur: Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in Act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781495092749

1495092747

OCLC:

1019840554