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Film Noir Compendium
Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
Series: Limelight
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Towards a Definition of Film Noir, Paul Schrader's Notes on Film Noir, and Raymond Durgnat's Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir. The collection explores film noir through formalist, feminist, structuralist, sociological, and stylistic perspectives, offering a rich resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts alike.
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This volume is ideal for students, academics, and devoted fans of film noir. Its extensive essays and critical analyses make it a valuable core text for film studies courses and a must-have for those seeking a deep understanding of this iconic American film movement.
FILM NOIR COMPENDIUM: KEY SELECTIONS FROM THE FILM NOIR READER SERIES
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In this essential study of film noir, editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single, convenient, heavily illustrated volume.
Still included, of course, are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's Towards a Definition of Film Noir from Panorama du Film Noir Americain, Paul Schrader's Notes on Film Noir, and Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir by Raymond Durgnat.
With newer studies such as Lounge Time by Vivian Sobchack, Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen, and Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama by J. P. Telotte, this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist, feminist, structuralist, sociological, and stylistic; narrative-thematic, historical, and even from the point of view of a pure aficionado.
There is something in this volume for every student or devotee of film noir. Plus, like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for academics planning a syllabus, it can serve as the most complete core text for any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781495058981
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Limelight Editions
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
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Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 1225g
Pages: 448
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About the Author
Alain Silver (Los Angeles, CA) is the co-editor of the Film Noir Reader series and co-writer of The Noir Style and L.A. Noir, as well as The Samurai Film and Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. His commentaries may be heard and seen on numerous DVDs, including Murder, My Sweet and Kiss Me Deadly. He is a writer/producer/director in independent feature productions.
With Alain Silver, James Ursini (Los Angeles, CA) has co-written studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich, and Roger Corman and on such genres as the vampire film, the zombie film, and most recently American neo-noir. He has also done numerous DVD commentaries on classic film noir DVDs such as Out of the Past, Kiss of Death, and Ride the Pink Horse. He recently completed his first neo-noir feature film.
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