Encyclopedia of Film Noir

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• Popular Culture » Film Studies
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• This work is highly recommended for academic and public libraries supporting film studies collections.
  —American Reference Books Annual 2008
• This is an essential book on any courses devoted to film studies and the cinema and, indeed, the essays will be excellent material for study in literary studies that include detective novels. The encyclopedia will be of interest in the public library for general readers, who will find details of their favourite 1940's films, even if some general readers may find the essays rather too academically inclined. Another marvellous film book!
  —Reference Reviews August 2008
• New Zealand-based film studies scholars Mayer and McDonnell list and describe approximately 130 films, actors, and directors of the film noir genre in alphabetically arranged entries. Along with classics such as Hitchcock's works, Chinatown, and Sunset Boulevard, this highly cross- referential text discusses newer noir such as Shallow Grave and Memento. Five essays open the book and expound on themes including noir's reflection on the McCarthy era and the influence of hard boiled detective fiction on the films of Bogart and his ilk.
  —Reference & Research Book News November 2007
• Film authorities Mayer and McDonnell deliver a well-researched, comprehensive guide to film noir history. The first part of the encyclopedia provides five excellent essays on the genre, complete with references, and the second part has entries on films, actors, and directors. Covering both the classical film noir cycle (1939-59) and the modern neo-noir period (1959-present), this work assesses many old standards (High Sierra, Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and modern films (Body Heat, Chinatown). In addition, it covers low-budget films, black films, and representative British films. Big name actors and directors (Bogart, Stanwyck, Hitchcock) are profiled, as are some unlikely minor ones like Hugh Beaumont. Most entries vary in length from one to three pages, but the genre essays are much longer.... this one is hard to beat because of its broad focus, scholarly but readable style, and good organization. The essays on the film noir genre will appeal to academic libraries with film studies programs and public libraries with film aficionados. Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.
  —Choice 2/1/2008
• This is one of those rich resource books that's fun to have around, because you can open it to just about any page and find lively musings on a particular film or artist associated with noir....The writing is accessible, concise, and never pretentious, unlike other film-noir encyclopedias I've come across. Ultimately, the authors make a good point: you can't simplify noir.
  —The Santa Fe New Mexican September 19-25, 2008

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  :The Myths and Parameters of Film Noir
  The Hard-Boiled Influence
  Film Noir and the City
  Film Noir Style
  Films, Actors and Directors
  Act of Violence
  Aldrich, Robert
  Among the Living
  Andrews, Dana
  Angel Face
  Apology for Murder
  Asphalt Jungle, The
  Beaumont, Hugh
  Bennett, Joan
  Big Clock, The
  Big Combo, The
  Big Heat, The
  Big Sleep, The
  Black Angel
  Blonde Ice
  Blood Simple
  Body Heat
  Bogart, Humphrey
  Born to Kill
  Breaking Point, The
  Brighton Rock
  Brodie, Steve
  Brothers, The
  Brothers Rico, The
  Burr, Raymond
  Carnival
  Cash on Demand
  Chase, The
  Chinatown
  Collateral
  Conte, Richard
  Cook, Jr., Elisha
  Corridors of Mirrors
  Cosh Boy
  Crack-Up
  Criminal, The
  Criss Cross
  Crooked Way, The
  Crossfire
  Croupier
  Cry of the City
  Dance With a Stranger
  Dark City
  Dark Corner, The
  Dark Passage
  Daughter of Darkness
  Dead Reckoning
  Dear Murderer
  Decoy
  Desperate
  Detour
  Devil in a Blue Dress
  Dmytryk, Edward
  D.O.A.
  Double Indemnity
  Duryea, Dan
  Fallen Angel
  Fallen Sparrow, The
  Farrow, John
  Fear in the Night
  File on Thelma Jordan, The
  Force of Evil
  Ford, Glenn
  Framed
  Fuller, Sam
  Garfield, John
  Get Carter
  Gilda
  Good Die Young, The
  Goring, Marius
  Grahame, Gloria
  Great Day
  Great Flamarion, The
  Greer, Jane
  Gun Crazy
  Gynt, Greta
  Hatters Castle
  Hayden, Sterling
  Heflin, Van
  Hell Drivers
  High Sierra
  History of Violence, A
  Hitchcock, Alfred
  Hollow Triumph
  House Across the Lake, The
  Huston, John
  I Wake Up Screaming
  I Wouldnt Be In Your Shoes
  Impulse
  In a Lonely Place
  Interrupted Journey
  It Always Rains on Sunday
  Johnny OClock
  Kansas City Confidential
  Karlson, Phil
  Killers, The
  Killing, The
  Kiss Me Deadly
  Kiss of Death
  Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
  Klute
  L.A. Confidential
  Ladd, Alan
  Lake, Veronica
  Lancaster, Burt
  Lang, Fritz
  Late Edwina Black, The
  Laura
  Leave Her to Heaven
  Lewis, Joseph H.
  Long Memory, The
  Lupino, Ida
  MacMurray, Fred
  Macomber Affair, The
  Macready, George
  Madeleine
  Man From Colorado, The
  Mann, Anthony
  Mark of Cain, The
  Mason, James
  Memento
  Mildred Pierce
  Mine Own Executioner
  Mitchum, Robert
  Money Trap, The
  Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
  Murder, My Sweet
  My Brothers Keeper
  My Name is Julia Ross
  Naked City
  Neal, Tom
  Night and the City
  Night Has Eyes, The
  Night Moves
  Nightmare Alley
  99 River Street
  No Orchids For Miss Blandish
  OBrien, Edmond
  Obsession
  October Man, The
  Odds Against Tomorrow
  On Dangerous Ground
  Out of the Past
  Paris By Night
  Payne, John
  Phantom Lady
  Pickup on South Street
  Pink String and Sealing Wax
  Pitfall
  Point Blank
  Portman, Eric
  Possessed
  Postman Always Rings Twice, The
  Powell, Dick
  Preminger, Otto
  Prowler, The
  Pushover
  Raw Deal
  Ray, Nicholas
  Reckless Moment, The
  Ride the Pink Horse
  Roadblock
  Robinson, Edward G..
  Rocking Horse Winner, The
  Ryan, Robert
  Savage, Ann
  Scandal Sheet
  Scarlet Street.
  Scott, Lizabeth
  Set-Up, The
  Se7en
  711 Ocean Drive
  Seventh Veil, The
  Seventh Victim, The
  Shallow Grave
  Sin City
  Siodmak, Robert
  Slightly Scarlet
  So Dark the Night
  So Evil My Love
  Somewhere in the Night
  Sorry, Wrong Number
  Spider and the Fly, The
  Stanwyck, Barbara
  Stranger on the Third Floor
  Street of Chance
  Sunset Boulevard
  Take My Life
  Taxi Driver
  They Made Me a Fugitive
  They Wont Believe Me
  Third Man, The
  This Gun For Hire
  Tierney, Gene
  Tightrope
  T-Men
  Todd, Ann
  Totter, Audrey
  Touch of Evil
  Tourneur, Jacques
  Trevor, Claire
  True Confessions
  Ulmer, Edgar
  Under the Gun
  Undercover Man, The
  Victim
  Where Danger Lives
  Where the Sidewalk Ends
  Widmark, Richard
  Wilde, Cornel
  Wilder, Billy
  Windsor, Marie
  Wings of the Dove, The
  Winstone, Ray
  Woman in the Window, The
  Selected Bibliography
  Appendix
  Index

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