| Edition |
Revised and expanded edition, First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 259 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 27 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
At head of title: TCM Turner Classic Movies. |
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Original edition published in 1998 in New York by St. Martin's Griffin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index. |
| Summary |
Examines the movies and artists of film noir, describing the social climate and artistic skills that contributed to the genre. |
| Contents |
Welcome to dark city -- Sinister heights -- The Precinct -- Hale Street -- Shamus flats -- Vixenville -- Blind alley -- The psych ward -- Knockover square -- Losers' lane -- The big house -- Thieves' highway -- The stage door. |
| Summary |
"This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology." -- Publisher's website |
| Subject |
Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Film noir -- United States -- Pictorial works.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- Pictorial works.
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Film noir. (OCoLC)fst00924273
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
illustrated books. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300311820
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Illustrated works.
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| Added Title |
Lost world of film noir |
| ISBN |
9780762498970 (hardcover) |
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0762498978 (hardcover) |
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