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Title: The Big Book of Noir by Lee Server, Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman ISBN: 0786705744 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 Amazon Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A great reference
Comment: If you're looking for an intriguing, informative, and overall enjoyable reference work on both noir fiction and film, look no further. The Big Book of Noir, co-edited by Lee Server and Ed Gorman, is chock full of terrific pieces on great directors and writers including Cornell Woolrich, A.I. Bezzerides (writer of the classics Kiss Me Deadly, On Dangerous Ground, and Thieves' Highway), Harry Whittington, Peter Rabe, Fritz Lang, Leigh Brackett, Gil Brewer, Mickey Spillane, and many more.
One of the best things about the book is that several of the above-mentioned pieces are actually interviews; Lang and Bezzerides fall into this category, as do Daniel Mainwaring (writer of Out of the Past), Abraham Polonsky (writer of Force of Evil), Peter Rabe, Charles Willeford, and Donald Westlake.
Several of the non-interview pieces are written by some of the best known writers in suspense fiction around including Stephen King (on Jim Thompson), William Nolan, Ed Gorman, Barry Malzberg, Bill Pronzini, and Max Allan Collins. Other pieces are firsthand accounts--by Leigh Brackett and Malvin Wald (writer of Naked City).
There's an interesting checklist of 100 favorite noir films (including a few by Jean-Pierre Melville, one of the all-time great French directors--a powerful inspiration for Tarantino), another checklist of 100 noir novels, and even a section on noir comics!
The Radio and TV section goes into Peter Gunn, of course, but also mentions the lesser-known (and by all accounts, far more interesting) Johnny Staccato which starred John Cassevetes who was infinitely edgier than Craig Stevens' Gunn character.
These guys have done their homework and more, and it definitely shows. It's a shame this book is out of print; it's terrific!
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential
Comment: A wonderful collection featuring some of the world's best noir scholars and historians. There's a wealth of information between these covers, but the book is worth its weight in platinum for the magnificent, definative essay on Gil Brewer written by Bill Pronzini.
Rating: 5
Summary: This one walks the walk, not just talks the talk.
Comment: As the lowly web guy behind The Thrilling Detective Web Site, I'm always looking for good reference books, and this one's a keeper! It collects some of the very best articles, essays and critiques in one handy volume, covering everything from film and fiction to radio, television and comics. Passionate, diverse, opinionated, cranky, illuminating and enlightening, it's like a Greatest Hits of Noir Criticism.
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Title: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller ISBN: 0312180764 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.95 Amazon Price(USD): $16.07 |
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Title: Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver, James Ursini ISBN: 0879101970 Publisher: Limelight Editions Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 Amazon Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Film Noir by Paul Duncan ISBN: 1903047080 Publisher: Pocket Essentiials Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 Amazon Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien ISBN: 0306807734 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.50 Amazon Price(USD): $12.25 |
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Title: Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir by Eddie Muller ISBN: 0060393696 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 Amazon Price(USD): $29.95 |
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