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Film Noir

English

By (author): Alain Silver James Ursini

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller examine noirs key themes and their most representative movies from 1940 to 1960.

Copiously illustrated with film stills as well as original posters, this book offers page after page of noirs masterful visual compositions while exploring the narrative paradigms of this cryptic, compelling, and evolving genre. If that werent enough to tickle your cinematic appetite, the volume concludes with TASCHENs top 50 pick of noir classics.

Brimming with the enigmatic dames, desperate gangsters, and psycho killers that continue to cast a long and captivating shadow over cinema, this is a must-have handbook for noir aficionados and amateurs alike.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 983g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 195mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Taschen GmbH
  • Publication City/Country: Germany
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783836561693

About Alain SilverJames Ursini

Film producer critic and historian Alain Silver is the author of 20 books on cinematic topics including The Noir Style LA Noir the Film Noir Reader series and Steve McQueen Frank Sinatra and Katharine Hepburn for TASCHEN's Icon Series. His audio commentaries on classic film noir DVDs include Call Northside 777 and Double Indemnity. A member of the Directors Guild of America the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America he graduated from UCLA with degrees in film production and critical studies. James Ursini has co-written eleven books with Alain Silver including their Film Noir Reader series which established them as two of the foremost authorities on film noir. Ursini has also written for various film magazines and supplied the commentary for numerous classic film noir DVDs. He has a doctorate in motion pictures studies and lectures on filmmaking in the Los Angeles area. Jürgen Müller holds the chair of Early Modern and Modern Art History at the Technical University of Dresden. He studied Art History at the universities of Bochum Munster Pisa Paris and Amsterdam and has worked as an art critic and curator of numerous exhibitions. He is also the editor of TASCHENs movies by decade series. Paul Duncan is a film historian whose TASCHEN books include The Star Wars Archives The James Bond Archives The Charlie Chaplin Archives The Godfather Family Album Taxi Driver Film Noir and Horror Cinema as well as publications on film directors film genres and movie stars.

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