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PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-100786466820
ISBN-139780786466825
eBay Product ID (ePID)112759187
Product Key Features
Book TitlePulp Fiction to Film Noir : the Great Depression and the Development of a Genre
Number of Pages222 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFilm / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorWilliam Hare
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-022243
Reviews"Hare takes readers on a tour of film noir, its dark settings, its brooding, almost anti-hero heroes...Hare provides a sense of film noir both in terms of what appeared on screen and the actors, directors, authors, and others who made it possible"-- Reference & Research Book News .
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal791.43/6556
Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. Film Noir and the Great Depression Two. The Hammett Touch and a Huston Launching Three. Raymond Chandler and His Symphony of the Streets Four. Captain Joseph Shaw and the Flowering of Film Noir Five. Horace McCoy's Dance Marathon Six. Chandler's Blueprint for Mystery and His Career in Hollywood Seven. The Outsider and Film Noir Eight. Bogart's Dark Passage and Moorehead's Blockbuster Performance Nine. Berlin and Vienna, Film Noir Inuences Ten. Siodmak's Phantom Femmes Eleven. Billy Wilder and Alcoholism Noir Twelve. Preminger's Noir Touch with Fallen Angel and Alice Faye Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisDuring the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists and turns of clever plots. This new crime fiction adapted brilliantly to the screen, birthing a cinematic genre that French cinema intellectuals following World War II christened "film noir." Set on dark streets late at night, in cheap hotels and bars, and populated by the dangerous people who frequented these locales, these films introduced a new antihero, a tough, brooding, rebellious loner, embodied by Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep . This volume provides a detailed exploration of film noir, tracing its evolution, the influence of such legendary writers as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the films that propelled this dark genre to popularity in the mid-20th century., During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists and turns of clever plots. This provides a detailed exploration of film noir, tracing its evolution, the influence of such legendary writers as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the films that propelled this dark genre to popularity.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.F54H396
