Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader 2

 

Film Noir Reader 2

Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini

 

Published by Limelight

Published 2004.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0879102802

ISBN-13: 978-0879102807

 

Description:

Generously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, “Hitchcock's Noir Landscape” “Samuel Fuller's Tabloid Cinema” “Son of Noir” “Noir Science” “Girl Power: Female Centered Neo-Noir” and “Abstract Expressionism and Film Noir.”

Recommended reading - Film Noir Reader

 

Film Noir Reader

Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini.
 
Published 1996.
Published by Limelight.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0879101970
ISBN-13: 978-0879101978
 
Description:
 

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.

Recommended reading - The Film Noir Encyclopedia

 

The Film Noir Encyclopedia

Edited by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini, Robert Porfirio.
 
Published by Harry N. Abrams.
Published 2010.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1590201442
ISBN-13: 978-1590201442
 
Description:
 

Meet the cynical and obsessive heroes of film noir portrayed by actors like Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, and Bette Davis. You may encounter a gun-toting gangster, a femme fatale wrapped in fur, a detective with the brim of his hat turned down, or a desperate murderer lurking in the shadows of a doorway. It's a world we all know – the seedy underbelly of the American Dream, and every bit as much a part of our culture. This wonderfully exhaustive text – tallying more than three hundred thousand words with hundreds of film stills and photos new to the work – distills everything about the movement into one volume from movies to stars to themes and motifs and brings us up to date with contemporary contributions to the movement. Now completely revised, expanded, and redesigned, this classic pioneering work is the final word on a dark subject.