Film noir prototypes /
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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.