Out of the shadows expanding the canon of classic film noir / Gene D. Phillips.
| Author/creator | Phillips, Gene D. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 307 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes filmography. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Out of the shadows Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2012. 9780810881891 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020740443 |
| ISBN | 9780810881907 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |