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Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir
- Title
- Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir / Gene D. Phillips.
- Author
- Phillips, Gene D.
- Publication
- Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 12-1191
- ISBN
- 9780810881891 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810881896 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011023510
- OCLC
- 729863287
- Author
- Phillips, Gene D.
- Title
- Out of the shadows : expanding the canon of classic film noir / Gene D. Phillips.
- Imprint
- Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes filmography.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 12-1191