Contributor
Silver, Alain, 1947-
Imprint:New York : Limelight Editions, c1996 (2006 printing)
Descriptionx, 343 p. : ill. , 23 cm.
Note:Part One : Seminal essays. Towards a definition of film noir / Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton (1955) -- Noir cinema / Charles Higham and Joel Greenberg (1968) -- Paint it black : the family tree of the film noir / Raymond Durgnat (1970) -- Notes on film noir / Paul Schrader (1972) -- Some visual motifs of film noir / Janey Place and Lowell Peterson (1974) -- No way out : existential motifs in the film noir / Robert Porfirio (1976) -- Film noir : a modest proposal / James Damico (1978) -- Out of what past? Notes on the B film noir / Paul Kerr (1979) -- Part two : Case studies. Phantom lady, Cornell Woolrich, and the masochistic aesthetic / Tony Williams -- John Farrow : anonymous noir / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- At the margins of film noir : Preminger's Angel face / Richard Lippe -- The Killers : expressiveness of sound and image in film noir / Robert Porfino -- Mann in the dark : the films noir of Anthony Mann / Robert E. Smith -- Expressionist doom in Night and the city / Glenn Erickson -- Kiss me deadly : evidence of a style / Alain Silver -- The Post-noir P.I. : The Long goodbye and Hickey and Boggs / Elizabeth Ward -- Part three : Noir then and now. Film noir, voice-over, and the femme fatale / Karen Hollinger -- What is this thing called noir? / Alain Silver and Linda Brookover -- Angst at sixty fields per second / James Ursini -- Miami vice, the legacy of film noir / Jeremy G. Butler -- Kill me again : movement becomes genre / Todd Erickson -- Son of noir : neo-film noir and the neo-B picture / Alain Silver.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
