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Out of the shadows :

0810881896 (cloth : alk. paper)

081088190X (ebook)

9780810881891 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780810881907 (ebook)

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Out of the shadows :

[Book]

expanding the canon of classic film noir /

Gene D. Phillips.

Lanham :

Scarecrow Press, Inc.,

[2012]

©2012

xiii, 307 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

Includes filmography.

Prologue: overlooked noir -- City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir -- Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films -- Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir -- John Huston: The Maltese falcon -- Stuart Heisler: The glass key -- Edward Buzzell: Song of the thin man -- Darkness at noon: representative noir films. Fritz Lang: Ministry of fear and Scarlet Street -- Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a train -- George Cukor: A double life -- Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard -- Robert Siodmak: The killers (1946) -- Don Siegel: The killers (1964) -- Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a murder -- Fred Zinnemann: Act of violence -- Stanley Kubrick: The killing -- Orson Welles: The stranger and Touch of evil -- The lower depths: the rise of neo-noir. Dashiell Hammett and neo-noir: The Dain curse and Hammett -- Anthony Minghella: The talented Mr. Ripley -- Liliana Cavani: Ripley's game -- Afterword / by James Welsh.

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"In Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir, Gene Phillips provides an in-depth examination of several key noir films, including acknowledged masterpieces like Laura, The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, as well as films not often associated with film noir like Spellbound, A Double Life, and Anatomy of a Murder. Phillips also examines overlooked or underappreciated films such as Song of the Thin Man, The Glass Key, Ministry of Fear, and Act of Violence. Also considered in this reevaluation are significant neo-noir films, among them Chinatown, Hammett, L.A. Confidential, and The Talented Mr. Ripley. In his analyses, Phillips draws upon a number of sources, including personal interviews with directors and others connected with their productions, screenplays, and evaluations of other commentators. Out of the Shadows explores not only the most celebrated noir films but offers new insight into underrated films that deserve reconsideration."--

Film noir-- History and criticism.

Phillips, Gene D.

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