About this title: The Big Book of Noir features articles and i nterviews about film ''noir'' in all its forms - movies, novel s, television and radio shows, comic books and graphic novel s. '
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Description: Good. Pages clean with no notes/highlights/underlines, back cover top crease has creased a few back pages but a minor blemish, First Carroll & Graf Edition stated 1998 (1M). read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice ex-library: square, clean, bright w/perfect binding. No notes or highlighting. Light wear to exterior; some dings, some scuffs, some edgewear. Trade paperback; 384 pp; illustrations. I'm a quick shipper. read more
Description: Very good. The present collection-through interviews, essays, and memoirs-charts the various strands of the noir vision in popular entertainment, from its vague beginnings in American pulps and European movie studios to the modern proliferation in mainstr. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Date Published: 1998-10
ISBN-13:9780786705740ISBN:0786705744
Description: VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER. Size: large softcover; 1st edition / It took the French, with their word for "dark, " to give an identity to an important mystery sub-genre. Something more than hard-boiled, noir--whether in film, book, or television--must also speak to a sense of existential nihilism, where betrayal is how romance best expresses itself and fear is only another name for foreplay. But while we all now know what noir is, when it was starting to coalesce as a coherent style back in the 1940s ... read more
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