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Title: Film Noir by Andrew Spicer ISBN: 0-582-43712-1 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 18 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Trip Down These Mean Streets
Comment: This is a textbook designed to introduce film noir to college students. However, it could be read with profit by anyone with an interest in the film noir phenomenon.
Spicer packs an incredible amount of information in the small space he has. He refers to the latest books and is incredibly thorough. He does a fine job on the origins of film noir, covering not only "tough guy" authors and German expressionism, but also Weimar "street films," French poetic realism and expressionism in American film before noir.
What I found especially interesting was the way Spicer continually breaks down noir and neo-noir into different eras. He sees a difference between noir of the Forties and Fifies, and he distinguishes between early neo-noir and late neo-noir, with Body Heat being the breaking point. I found that very useful, since the neo-noir era has lasted so long by now. It is hard to think of The Long Goodbye and Reservoir Dogs as fitting in the same era, so it is good to have a distinguishing framework.
Spicer also covers British film noir, and he breaks that down into different eras as well. To someone very familiar with the American noir cannon, this is like discovering a new continent of films.
So I would strongly urge any film noir enthusiast to get Spicer's book. You will learn something you didn't know before, or find out about films you will want to see.
So this is a book that
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Title: A Panorama of American Film Noir, 1941-1953 by Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton, Paul Hammond, James Naremore ISBN: 087286412X Publisher: City Lights Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Film Noir Reader (Film Noir Reader) by Alain Silver, Alain Silver, James Ursini ISBN: 0879101970 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts by James Naremore ISBN: 0520212940 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Foster Hirsch ISBN: 0306810395 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir by Andrew Dickos ISBN: 0813122430 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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