Film noir prototypes / edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Film noir prototypes : origins of the movement. (cover title)

Silver, Alain, 1947- (editor.). Ursini, James, (editor.).

Summary:

Film noir is one of the most enduring and popular genres in cinema. But it did not spring up spontaneously, fully formed. Rather, its origins can be traced to sources as varied as Victorian literature, German Expressionism, and American art and photography. In this comprehensive collection of essays that's packed with illustrations and artwork, a team of eminent scholars and film writers present thorough analyses of the influence of prototypes on the classic period of film noir.

Record details

ISBN: 9781495092749
ISBN: 1495092747
Physical Description: 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard LLC., 2018.
Copyright: ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Alain Silver -- German expressionism and film noir / Robert G. Porfirio -- Looking back-victorinoir: modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations / Julie Grossman -- Proto-noir motifs in Metropolis / Alain Silver -- Paleo-noir / Homer B. Pettey -- Film noir, American painting and photography: a question of influence? / Tom Ryall -- Proto-noir: DeMille style / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Proto-noir pictorialism in the 1930s films of John Ford / Alain Silver -- Universal horror and film noir: The mummy and The black cat / James Ursini -- Film noir graphics: origins / Alain Silver and James Ursini -- Hitchcock before noir: Hitchcock's gaumont British thrillers as film noir prototypes / Richard Edwards -- Noir revealed: Robert Florey and The face behind the mask / James V. D'Arc and Todd Erickson -- Crime and punishment: the mother of all noir / James Ursini -- The gangster in film noir / Alain Silver -- Some French films of the occupation: the silence of the noir / Tony Williams -- That sinking feeling: Cornell Woolrich and the uncanny noir mood / Marlisa Santos -- Women and film noir: Pulp fiction and the woman's picture / Julie Grossman -- "Rawness to romance": "gothic" thrillers as film noir prototypes from Alfred Hitchcock to Orson Welles / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- The rogue cop film: theft, adaptation, and prototypicality in Where the sidewalk ends / Robert Miklitsch -- The "House of death" in print and on-screen: Double indemnity as journalism, fiction and film / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- The influence of an Émigré film noir auteur: Fred Zinnemann's social realism and cultural critique in Act of violence / Sheri Chinen Biesen.