Film noir prototypes /
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| Imprint: | Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC., 2018. ©2018 |
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| Description: | 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11672946 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- German Expressionism and Film Noir
- Looking Back-Victorinoir: Modern Women and the Fatal(e) Progeny of Victorian Representations
- Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis
- Paleo-Noir
- Film noir, American painting and photography: a question of influence?
- Proto-noir-DeMille Style
- Proto-noir Pictorialism in the 1930s Films of John Ford
- Universal Horror and Film Noir-The Mummy and The Block Cat
- Film Noir Graphics: Origins
- Hitchcock Before Noir: Hitchcock's Gaumont British Thrillers as Film Noir Prototypes
- Noir Revealed: Robert Florey and The Face Behind the Mast
- Crime and Punishment-the Mother of All Noir
- The Gangster in Film Noir
- Some French Films of the Occupation: The Silence of the Noir
- That Sinking Feeling: Cornell Woolrich and the Uncanny Noir Mood
- Women and Film Noir: Pulp Fiction and the Woman's Picture
- "Rawness To Romance": "Gothic" Thrillers as Film Noir Prototypes From Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles
- The Rogue Cop Film: Theft, Adaptation, and Prototypicality in Where the Slidewalk Ends
- The "House of Death" in Print and On-Screen: Double Indemnity as Journalism, Fiction, and Film
- The Influence of an Émigré Film Noir Auteur: Fred Zinnemann's Social Realism and Cultural Critique in Act of Violence
- Notes on Contributors
