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The Big Book of Noir
Published 1998.
Edited by Ed Gorman, Lee
Server, Martin H. Greenberg.
ISBN-10: 0786705744
ISBN-13: 978-0786705740
Description:
THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR
Noir is big. It was born in the hard-boiled detective story of
Depression-era America. It flourished in the black-and-white B movies of the
forties and fifties. And it’s been ingeniously reinvented in the film and
fiction of the nineties.
Etched on our cultural
memory by writers like Raymond Chandler, directors like Alfred Hitchcock,
screen stars like Robert Mitchum and Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott and Gloria
Graham, noir is big.
Noir is big, so The Big Book of Noir jam-packs its pages
with articles, interviews, excerpts, opinion, and gossip that chronicle its
history and explore noir in all its forms: movies, detective stories,
television and radio shows, comic books, and graphic novels.
The Big Book of Noir pays homage to the big names in noir – John Huston,
Fritz Lang, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Ross MacDonald, Donald E.
Westlake – as well as less familiar figures like Phil Karlson, Peter Rabe,
Charles Williams, Harry Whittington, and Gil Brewer. It also includes two rare
pieces: Stephen King writing about Jim Thompson in one and in the other Dulcy
Brainard writing about Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, and Wendi Lee.
The evidence is in. The
Big Book of Noir amasses fascinating and informative exhibits that amply
illustrate one of America’s most significant cultural contributions.
Because
noir is big.
