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Film Noir Compendium
Key Selections from the Film Noir Reader Series
By Alain Silver and
James Ursini.
Published 2016.
Published by Limelight.
Illustrated edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1495058980
ISBN-13: 978-1495058981
Description:
In
this essential study of film noir, editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select
the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly
respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single, convenient,
heavily illustrated volume. Still included, of course, are many rare early
articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's “Towards a Definition
of Film Noir” from Panorama du Film Noir Americain, Paul Schrader's “Notes on
Film Noir ” and “Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir” by Raymond
Durgnat. With newer studies such as “Lounge Time” by Vivian Sobchack,
“Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films” by Sheri Chinen Biesen, and
“Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama” J. P. Telotte, this collection
of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from
varying angles: formalist, feminist, structuralist, sociological, and
stylistic; narrative-thematic historical, and even from the point of view of a
pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee
of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for
academics planning a syllabus, it can serve as the most complete core text for
any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
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