This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. Part one reprints eight seminal essays that classify and analyse the period and its product and also offers the initial extensive discussion of film noir in English. In Part Two there are 'case studies ...
In the wake of the remarkable success of Film Noir Reader, this new collection further explores a genre of limitless fascination -- and one that continues to inspire and galvanise the latest generation of film-makers. Again heavily illustrated, with close to 150 stills, Film Noir Reader 2 is organised much like the earlier volume. It begins with ...
Departing from the approach of its pre-decessors, this third volume is not a collection of essays by a diverse assembly of critics and scholars but a collection of interviews largely by the book's editors, its focus mainly on directors responsible for many of the land-mark films of the Classic Noir Period. Few of them are alive today, which makes ...
The earlier 'Film Noir Readers', which now boast a combined sale of well over 30,000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview of the genre, demonstrating how broad and inclusive noir movies are. This addition moves in a different direction. Its purpose is to identify a handful of plot elements that consistently recur within ...
Film buffs explore the world of noir cinema in a Los Angeles context with this guide to noir films and their California settings. This book illustrates how these films use L.A.'s diverse cityscape and architecture to convey a unique vision of urban corruption and existential fatalism, in both the gritty downtown area and the outlying affluent ...
Beginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, etc.), this coplously illustrated handbook provides instant and in-depth access to the film noir genre for amateurs and aflclonados alike. Among the films covered are these ...
The image of a lone hero, marked by a violent past and bound by honor, has exerted an endless fascination on film audiences the world over, but nowhere more than in Japan, where Samurai films have gained legions of passionate followers. Popularized and perfected by one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema, Akira Kurosawa, the themes of ...
Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with black-and-white photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness". 100 ...
Encompasses almost two centuries as it considers such classics as The Picture of Dorian Gray, up to contemporary novels such as The Dead Zone. Then the authors study the most significant feature films derived from these.
In this celebration of film noir, film experts Alain Silver and James Ursini explore more than six decades' worth of macabre movies, including John Huston's THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) and Jonathan Demme's SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1992).
From birth, Katharine Hepburn seemed destined to become a symbol of the modern woman on stage, on screen, and in the world. Fiercely competitive, private, and independent, Hepburn was one part Olympic athlete Babe Didrikson, one part Amelia Earhart, and two parts Greta Garbo. Although often paired with the greatest actors in Hollywood - Humphrey ...
Roger Corman is considered by some as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of motion pictures but not because of his success in directing and producing films. He ran a de facto school for young filmmakers, the alumni of which have garnered more money and awards than any other group in film history. Through research and a series of ...
During the early 1930's, a burgeoning Hollywood film industry defined one of the most iconic genres of all time. With the release of three films, "Little Caesar" (1931), "The Public Enemy" (1931), and "Scarface" (1932), Hollywood established the style and audience expectations associated with gangster films that remain in force to the present day. ...
Steve McQueen found it hard to balance worldwide fame with a desperate need for solitude. Through performances that were effortless yet powerful, he connected with the people who saw him on stage, on television, in movie houses, and on magazine covers anywhere on earth. Sometimes more comfortable racing a motorcycle than in front of a camera, ...
This book begins with seminal essays, several dating back to the 1950s, that uncover the roots of the genre and explain its wide-ranging, indestructible appeal. These writings include, among many others, 'The Horror of It All' by Hollis Alpert and Charles Beaumont, 'The Subconscious: From Pleasure Castle to Libido Motel' by Raymond Durgnat and ...
Long before he was Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra was a child of the jazz age and its free-wheeling approach to life. In the course of a meteoric rise from singing waiter to the world's first pop star, Sinatra relied on his own version of keeping it simple: "I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to ...
A film-by-film accounting of the work of the Academy Award-winning director of such classics as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Passage to India, and Bridge on the River Kwai.
The authors consider and analyse each picture in detail: its style and approach, plot, acting, cinematography, set design, special effects and finally its quality of achievement. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, many quite rare and never reprinted elsewhere, the book also features an enlarged and updated filmography, which becomes the most ...
"The production crew are the footsoldiers of motion picture production, and nowhere is their job better explained than in this competent and comprehensive work". -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner. The Assistant Director and the Production Manager are essential elements in the smooth operation and successful completion of any film. They oversee and ...
This title provides visual biographies of cinema's greatest stars. Why is the only non-American on the AFI's prestigious list a Scotsman? Perhaps it's because Sean Connery's career, as international in its scope as it may have been, as global as may have been his appeal, made him a 'genuine movie star' without any petty disputation, pretension, or ...
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