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Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir /
Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginningwith Stranger on the Third Floor in 1940. Howe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
c2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: overlooked noir
- City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir
- Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films
- Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir
- John Huston: The Maltese falcon
- Stuart Heisler: The glass key
- Edward Buzzell: Song of the thin man
- Darkness at noon: representative noir films. Fritz Lang: Ministry of fear and Scarlet Street
- Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a train
- George Cukor: A double life
- Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard
- Robert Siodmak: The killers (1946)
- Don Siegel: The killers (1964)
- Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a murder
- Fred Zinnemann: Act of violence
- Stanley Kubrick: The killing
- Orson Welles: The stranger and Touch of evil
- The lower depths: the rise of neo-noir. Dashiell Hammett and neo-noir: The Dain curse and Hammett
- Anthony Minghella: The talented Mr. Ripley
- Liliana Cavani: Ripley's game
- Afterword / by James Welsh.