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April 2013
Into the shadows
Noir in the spotlight
“By 1949 American movies were in the throes of their deepest and most creative
funk. Never before had films dared to take such a harsh uncomplimentary look at
American life.” —Paul Schrader, “Notes on Film Noir”
Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femme fatales,
where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant.... If your heart rate just increased a
bit, you’ll covet this book—the first film-by-film photography book on film noir and
neo-noir. Beginning with silent, German, and French films that were early influences
on the genre, through to seminal works such as Double Indemnity, The Postman
Always Rings Twice, and Vertigo, you’ll make your way to the present day via
Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, Heat, Memento, and the recent cult favorite Drive. Entries
include posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from
critics, and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar, and Taxi Driver
screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship.
Populated by the genre’s most revered directors like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles,
Polanski, Mann, and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces such as
those of Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson,
Pacino, and so many more.
Opposite: On the set of You Only Live Once
(1937). Photo © The Kobal Collection, London/
New York
100 All-
Time Favorite
Film Noirs
Cover
under
construction
100 All-Time Favorite Film Noirs
Paul Duncan (Ed.)
Hardcover, 2 vols. in slipcase,
9.4 x 12 in., 760 pp.
978-3-8365-4356-9
$ 59.99 / CAD 64.99
“Film Noir sumptuously deconstructs and
demystifies each element of the movement from it’s
emergence in the early forties, right up to Pulp
Fiction, Seven and beyond. A fascinating read that
will have you scurrying to your nearest bookseller
and, perhaps unwisely, a fedora shop.”
— Shortlist, London
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Only $
59.99