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Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays exploring the philosophical elements present in Neo-Noir films. Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life and on the place of humankind in the universe. Spanning the 1940s...
4) Kalifornia
Language
English
Description
When Brian (David Duchovny) and Carrie (Michelle Forbes) set out on a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers, they share the ride with a couple they barely know - Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) and his girlfriend Adele (Juliette Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westward, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when Early's violent nature emerges, Brian and Carrie realize that they don't need to go very far to learn...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
6) Elena
Pub. Date
℗2011, ©2012.
Language
Russian
Description
The story of Elena and Vladimir, an older couple. The wealthy but stingy Vladimir treats Elena more like a servant than a wife. They each have children from their first marriages, a son and a daughter. Elena's son is unemployed and can't feed his wife and two children; they live only on the money Elena provides them, while Vladimir's daughter lives a bohemian life. In the hospital following a heart attack, Vladimir's daughter visits him. Their time...
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Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Foster Hirsch's “Dark Side of the Screen” is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. From Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk, Robert Aldrich, and Howard Hawkes to Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, and Paul Schrader, the noir themes of dread, paranoia, steamy sex, double-crossing women, and menacing cityscapes have held a fascination. The features...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This book historically examines film noir visual style, aesthetic technique, and the technological, industrial, and material production conditions which contributed to the multifaceted evolution of film noir from its 1940s emergence in wartime to its changing nature in the postwar era, through neo-noir's reimagining of the chiaroscuro imagery of classic noir visual style to its transnational production/reception context in a global digital media...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Muller--host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur--takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"An essay collection examining the philosophical elements of select films in noir cinema, as well as the genre's legacy in film and culture. A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective down on his luck becomes involved with a gang of criminals in pursuit of a priceless artifact. The stories are at once romantic, pessimistic, filled with anxiety and...
13) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
14) Nightmare alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money in 1940s New York.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From actual murder to magazine fiction to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is as complex as anything that hit the screen during film noir's classic period. A 1927 tabloid sensation "crime of the century" inspired journalist and would-be crime-fiction writer James M. Cain to pen a novella. Hollywood quickly bid on the film rights, but throughout the 1930s a strict code of censorship made certain that no studio could green-light a murder melodrama...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Film noir is one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history. First associated with Hollywood thrillers of the 1940s and 50s, film noir has become fully international in its nature and appeal, attracting the interest of great directors right up to our present time. In this Very Short Introduction James Naremore analyses classic examples of the films, as well as a few lesser known noir pieces, highlighting their key themes...
18) Nightmare alley
Series
Fox film noir volume 06
Language
English
Description
Stanton Carlisle is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena, then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The Great Stanton, " star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all this notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him.--Container
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An analysis of Hollywood films that blend elements of musicals and film noir, from the author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. In her pioneering...
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