Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms and Persons
Michael L. Stephens
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Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens epub Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens pdf download Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens pdf file Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens audiobook Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens book review Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Michael L. Stephens summary | #7049487 in Books | McFarland n Company, Inc., Publishers | 2006-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.94 x5.92l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 436 pages | ||20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Value and ambitions severely compromised by multiple errors|By A Customer|This costly reference book, which aims at exhaustiveness, is severely compromised by errors and omissions. Quite obviously a labor of love, it desperately needed the services of a fact-checker or ruthless proofreader. As published, it fails to achieve the authoritativeness it craves. For example: TWIC|From Library Journal|The author begins this book with an excellent introduction to film noir, that enduringly popular genre of films with fatalistic, bleak themes. Although they became most famous during the 1940s and 1950s-when such examplars as Double Indemnit
Film noir is a uniquely American genre that has stylistic links to the German expressionist cinema of the 1920s and thematic links to the hard-boiled crime fiction that emerged in the 1930s. Generally the milieu is urban and middle class, and the overall feel is one of repression and fatalism. Whether shot in black and white or color, the style reinforces the overall feel. Films, directors, actors, producers, screenwriters, art directors, themes, plot devices and many o...
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