Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver
This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject.
Alain Silver (Los Angeles, CA) has written and edited over 30 books, including The Samurai Film and James Wong Howe: The Camera Eye. His articles have appeared in Film Comment, Movie (UK'), 'Wide Angle, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Photon, along with numerous anthologies and online magazines. His filmed screenplays include White Nights (from Dostoyevsky'), 'the Showtime feature Time at the Top, Nightcomer (which he also directed'), 'and Sacred Blood. He has also produced more than two dozen independent features and 40 soundtrack albums. James Ursini (Los Angeles, CA) is the author of The Life and Times of Preston Sturges and An American Dreamer. He is the co-author, with James Ursini, of nine books, and of three books with Dominique Mainon. He has been a producer on features and documentaries, wrote and co-directed the independent neo-noir Nasty Piece of Work, and has lectured on filmmaking at UCLA and other colleges in the Los Angeles area, where he works as an educator.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780879101978 |
| ISBN 10 | 0879101970 |
| Title | Film Noir Reader |
| Author | Alain Silver |
| Series | Limelight |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Limelight Editions |
| Year published | 1996-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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