Film Noir Compendium

James Naremore introduces film noir, highlighting key themes, films, and styles, and exploring why the genre is so difficult to categorize. First a...

DescriptionCovers the equipment needed, including the cameras, lenses, and the accessories that are essential to creating high-quality film noir im...

Reducere. Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, "Hitchcock's Noir Landscape " "Samuel Fuller's Tabloid C...

The first edition of 'Women in Film Noir' (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender...

Reducere. (FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to bru...

Reducere. An anthology on film noir, this book contains early writings on the genre as well as more recent literature, some published here for the first time...

Reducere. A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective dow...

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Derek SculthorpeOne of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Padraic (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) KilleenIllustration(s): 38 bw illusNumber ...

Reducere. (Limelight). The earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30, 000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a swe...

Reducere. A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir--the most original genre of American cinema--with a new afterword by the authorS...

Reducere. (Applause Books). Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, double-crossers, femmes fatales, and, of course, losers who find the...

Reducere. For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the men...

The term 'film noir' still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

Reducere. Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We w...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

This book combines urban theory with film studies and cultural theory to explore how twentieth century Los Angeles is configured through the lens o...

Cind credea ca nimic nua€‘l mai poate sur­prinde, Bernie – care tocmai investigheaza cazul unei vaduve devenite victima a unui santajist misterios ...

Reducere. DescriptionPJ Parrish is pleased to present OUR NOIR, a collection of short stories and a Louis Kincaid novella.The collection includes: LOST AND F...

Set in Sixties London, a gripping drama of past secrets revealed, of manipulation and revenge for fans of Daphne du Maurier and noir movies like Al...

Reducere. The handpainted elephants and textured watercolor foliage throughout this moving journal celebrate the ways compassion and kindness make a differen...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Encyclop dia Hawkwindia is the ultimate guide to more than fifty years of Hawkwind, from the first show in August, 1969, to the next scheduled ...

Reducere. A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions...

Reducere. Fans of fast-paced adventure, thought-provoking storytelling and hard-boiled detectives like Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, will love Pinot Noi...

Budapest Noir - Vilmos Kondor

Reducere. Roman considerat primul noir maghiar autenticBudapesta, 1936. Prim-ministrul Gyula Gömbös se stinge înainte să-și poată realiza visul – să transfor...