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Into the dark : the hidden world of film noir, 1941-1950
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
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Siren City
Hailed for its dramatic expressionist visuals, film noir is one of the most prominent genres in Hollywood cinema. Yet, despite the \"boom\" in sound studies, the role of sonic effects and source music in classic American noir has not received the attention it deserves.Siren Cityengagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics.Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, Robert Miklitsch mobilizes the notion of audiovisuality to investigate period sound technologies such as the radio and jukebox, phonograph and Dictaphone, popular American music such as \"hot\" black jazz, and \"big numbers\" featuring iconic performers such as Lauren Bacall, Veronica Lake, and Rita Hayworth.Siren Cityresonates with the sounds and source music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central to the noir aesthetic and one important reason the genre reverberates with audiences around the world.
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More than night
\"Film noir\" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic modernism, as a symptom of Hollywood censorship and politics, as a market strategy, as an evolving style, and as an idea that circulates through all the media. This new and expanded edition of More Than Night contains an additional chapter on film noir in the twenty-first century.
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Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions
In the words of Richard Maltby . . . \"Maximum Movies--Pulp Fictions describes two improbably imbricated worlds and the piece of cultural history their intersections provoked.\" One of these worlds comprises a clutch of noisy, garish pulp movies--Kiss Me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I Walked with a Zombie, The Lineup, Terror in a Texas Town, Ride Lonesome--pumped out for the grind houses at the end of the urban exhibition chain by the studios' B-divisions and fly-by-night independents. The other is occupied by critics, intellectuals, cinephiles, and filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Manny Farber, and Lawrence Alloway, who championed the cause of these movies and incited the cultural guardians of the day by attacking a rigorously policed canon of tasteful, rarified, and ossified art objects. Against the legitimate, and in defense of the illegitimate, in an insolent and unruly manner, they agitated for the recognition of lurid sensational crime stories, war pictures, fast-paced Westerns, thrillers, and gangster melodramas were claimed as examples of the true, the real, and the authentic in contemporary culture--the foundation upon which modern film studies sits.
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The Mysterious Romance of Murder
From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero
Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster,
and other femmes fatales-crime and crime solving in fiction and
film captivate us. Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's
ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder
mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for
the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The
Mysterious Romance of Murder , the poet and critic David Lehman
explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies-some famous
(The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to
aficionados-with style, wit, and passion.
Lehman revisits the smoke-filled jazz clubs from the classic
noir films of the 1940s, the iconic set pieces that defined
Hitchcock's America, the interwar intrigue of Eric Ambler's best
fictions, and the intensity of attraction between Humphrey Bogart
and Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, Cary Grant and
Ingrid Bergman. He also considers the evocative elements of
noir-cigarettes, cocktails, wisecracks, and jazz standards-and
offers five original noir poems (including a pantoum inspired by
the 1944 film Laura) and ironic astrological profiles of Barbara
Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, and Graham Greene. Written by a
connoisseur with an uncanny feel for the language and mood of
mystery, espionage, and noir, The Mysterious Romance of
Murder will delight fans of the genre and newcomers alike.
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Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers
Film noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? These included adaptations of such well-known films as The Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet, and Double Indemnity, detective series devoted to the adventures of private eyes Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and the spine-tingling anthology programs Lights Out and Suspense. Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling on the two media, arguing that radio's noir dramas played an important role as a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films. Besides shedding new light on long-neglected radio dramas, and a medium that was cinema's major rival, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study also uses these programs to challenge conventional understandings of the much-debated topic of noir.
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