Film noir prototypes /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Silver, Alain, 1947- (Editor), Ursini, James (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Alain Silver
  • German expressionism and film noir / Robert G. Porfirio
  • Looking back-victorinoir: modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations / Julie Grossman
  • Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis / Alain Silver
  • Paleo-noir / Homer B. Pettey
  • Film noir, American painting and photography: a question of influence? / Tom Ryall
  • Proto-noir: DeMille style / Alain Silver and James Ursini
  • Proto-noir pictorialism in the 1930s films of John Ford / Alain Silver
  • Universal horror and film noir: The mummy and The black cat / James Ursini
  • Film noir graphics: origins / Alain Silver and James Ursini
  • Hitchcock before noir: Hitchcock's gaumont British thrillers as film noir prototypes / Richard Edwards
  • Noir revealed: Robert Florey and The face behind the mask / James V. D'Arc and Todd Erickson
  • Crime and punishment: the mother of all noir / James Ursini
  • The gangster in film noir / Alain Silver
  • Some French films of the occupation: the silence of the noir / Tony Williams
  • That sinking feeling: Cornell Woolrich and the uncanny noir mood / Marlisa Santos
  • Women and film noir: Pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman
  • "Rawness to romance": "gothic" thrillers as film noir prototypes from Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles / Sheri Chinen Biesen
  • The rogue cop film: theft, adaptation, and prototypicality in Where the sidewalk ends / Robert Miklitsch
  • The "House of death" in print and on-screen: Double indemnity as journalism, fiction and film / Jesse Schlotterbeck
  • The influence of émigré film noir auteur: Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in Act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen.