The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
Autor Foster Hirschen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 noi 2008
A
revised
and
updated
edition
of
the
definitive
study
of
film
noir—the
most
original
genre
of
American
cinema—with
a
new
afterword
by
the
author
SinceThe Dark Side of the Screenfirst appeared over two decades ago, it has served as the essential take on what has become one of today’s most pervasive screen influences and enduringly popular genres. Covering over one hundred outstanding films and offering more than two hundred carefully chosen stills, it is by far the most thorough and entertaining study available of noir themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, and directors. This landmark work covers noir in full, from the iconic performances of Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, and Humphrey Bogart to the camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize the work of directors Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.
With a new afterword about the lasting legacy ofnoiras well as recently rediscovered films deserving of their own screenings alongside the classics,The Dark Side of the Screenreestablishes itself as both an unsurpassed resource and a captivating must-read for any fan of noir.
SinceThe Dark Side of the Screenfirst appeared over two decades ago, it has served as the essential take on what has become one of today’s most pervasive screen influences and enduringly popular genres. Covering over one hundred outstanding films and offering more than two hundred carefully chosen stills, it is by far the most thorough and entertaining study available of noir themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, and directors. This landmark work covers noir in full, from the iconic performances of Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, and Humphrey Bogart to the camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize the work of directors Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.
With a new afterword about the lasting legacy ofnoiras well as recently rediscovered films deserving of their own screenings alongside the classics,The Dark Side of the Screenreestablishes itself as both an unsurpassed resource and a captivating must-read for any fan of noir.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780306817724
ISBN-10: 0306817721
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 200+ b/w photographs throughout
Dimensiuni: 178 x 233 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
ISBN-10: 0306817721
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 200+ b/w photographs throughout
Dimensiuni: 178 x 233 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
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Notă biografică
Foster
Hirsch,
a
professor
of
Film
at
Brooklyn
College,
is
the
author
of
sixteen
books
on
film
and
theater,
includingDetours
and
Lost
Highways:
A
Map
of
Neo-Noir;Love,
Sex,
Death,
and
the
Meaning
of
Life:
The
Films
of
Woody
Allen;
andOtto
Preminger:
The
Man
Who
Would
Be
King.
He
lives
in
New
York.
Recenzii
Martin
Jackson,
Cineaste
“Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise….[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure.”
Philip French,The Observer(London)
“There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch’sThe Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder’sDouble Indemnity(1944) and hisSunset Boulevard(1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context.”
Skyscraper, Spring 2009
“An important examination of what film noir is…The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch’s academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach.”
“Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise….[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure.”
Philip French,The Observer(London)
“There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch’sThe Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder’sDouble Indemnity(1944) and hisSunset Boulevard(1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context.”
Skyscraper, Spring 2009
“An important examination of what film noir is…The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch’s academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach.”