The Philosophy of Film Noir, Paperback - Mark T. Conard

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...

Reducere. Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between dar...

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...

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...

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into ...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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

The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture - Yoram Hazony

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

This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar...

DescriptionDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, "epicureanism" has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. These writings...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science - Kent W. Staley

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Philosophy of Freedom (A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods), by Rudolf Steiner originally published in Engli...

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. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to re...

Reducere. The Philosophy of Set Theory. An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise A century ago, Georg Cantor demonstrated the possibility of a series ...

Targeting the Deputyby Delores Fossen Two exes will do anything to save their son...Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rachel LeeNumber ...

Cold Case Suspectby Kayla Perrin She's a woman determined to clear her namePublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rachel LeeNumber of pages:...

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

Reducere. A rich and accessible introduction to Marx's fundamental concepts from a key intellectual--now updated Written by one of political theory's leading...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: AristotleIntroduction by: Renford BambroughCommentaries by: Renford BambroughMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle es...

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This influential volume contributed to the shift in how philosophy of mind is understood. While previous studies tended to focus exclusively on the...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe Philosophy of Existence, among the first translations into English of the Catholic existentialist Gabriel Marcel, is composed of fou...

The book provides an accessible, comprehensive, and high quality introduction to the major themes of legal philosophy, written by a stellar interna...

Reducere. This is the 1st English translation from Russian: the Russian religious philosopher Nicholas Berdyaev's 1911 book, "The Philosophy of Freedom", whi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rick (Assistant Professor Department of Media and Culture Studies, University of Utrecht, The Nether...

This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its connections with philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. Th...

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

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Reducere. The Philosophy of Death is a discussion of the basic philosophical issues concerning death, and a critical introduction to the relevant contemporar...

Reducere. Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always warranted? In this book, Sara Protasi argues that envy is more mu...

'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had be...

Reducere. A Remarkable Book by One of the Game's Most Creative Minds Grandmaster Igor Zaitsev ranks as one of the most creative chess minds ever in the histo...