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(Limelight). This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style , now regarded as the standard work on the subject.
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An anthology of 22 seminal and contemporary essays on the art of noir in film, drawing together definitive studies and ruminations on the philosophy and techniques that made movies like The Maltese Falcon classics. The essays include the first English translation of "Towards a Definition of Film Noir ," by Borde and Chaumeton, and Paul Shrader's "Notes on Film Noir ." Other critical discussions examine narrative structure, lighting, the evolution of the femme fatale , and the neo-noir rebirth of the genre in films like Reservoir Dogs and Gun Crazy . Lots and lots of black and white (of course) photographs make this a film buff's dream collection. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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