The noir style / Alain Silver & James Ursini ; additional material by Robert Porfirio and Linda Brookover ; design by Bernard Schleifer.
Replete with sinister and scintillating photos, this book handsomely and uniquely illustrates the graphic impact of film noir in images that practically speak for themselves. Cover hard-boiled detectives, tough dames, mean streets, and seedy gangsters that populated movie classics like The Maltese F...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodstock, N.Y. :
Overlook Press,
1999.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Replete with sinister and scintillating photos, this book handsomely and uniquely illustrates the graphic impact of film noir in images that practically speak for themselves. Cover hard-boiled detectives, tough dames, mean streets, and seedy gangsters that populated movie classics like The Maltese Falcon (1940), Double Indemnity (1944), The Naked City (1948), and Touch of Evil (1958). It is arranged under such classifications as "Dark Mirror," "Night and the City," "Deadly Is the Female," and "Neo-Noir"- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 248 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 0879517220 9780879517229 1854106651 9781854106650 |