Out of the shadows expanding the canon of classic film noir / Gene D. Phillips.

Author/creator Phillips, Gene D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc.,
Description1 online resource (xiii, 307 p.)
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Out of the shadows Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2012. 9780810881891 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020740443
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