Into the Dark
The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
by Mark A. Vieira.Illustrated edition.
Published 2016.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0762455233
ISBN-13: 978-0762455232
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ISBN-13: 978-0762455232
Bursting with glossy stills and archival
material, film historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira's Into The Dark: The
Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950 offers an unprecedented portal into
Hollywood's golden era of cynicism. A systematic study of noir, this gorgeous
coffee table tome fills a significant gap in scholarship on the genre.” –
MovieMaker.
You know film noir when you see it: the
shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of
fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling
photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
Into the Dark is the first book to tell the
story of film noir in its own voice. Author Mark A. Vieira quotes the artists
who made these movies and the journalists and critics who wrote about them,
taking readers on a year-by-year tour of the exciting nights when movies like
Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Sunset Boulevard were sprung on an
unsuspecting public. For the first time, we hear the voices of film noir
artists speak from the sets and offices of the studios, explaining the dark
genre, even before it had a name. Those voices tell how the genre was born and
how it thrived in an industry devoted to sweetness and light.
Into the Dark is a ticket to a smoky,
glamorous world. You enter a story conference with Raymond Chandler, visit the
set of Laura, and watch Detour with a Midwest audience. This volume recreates
the environment that spawned film noir. It also displays the wit and warmth of
the genre's artists. Hedda Hopper reports on Citizen Kane, calling Orson Welles
"Little Orson Annie." Lauren Bacall says she enjoys playing a bad
girl in To Have and Have Not. Bosley Crowther calls Joan Crawford in Possessed
a "ghost wailing for a demon lover beneath a waning moon." An Indiana
exhibitor rates the classic Murder, My Sweet a "passable program
picture." Illustrated by hundreds of rare still photographs, Into the Dark
conveys the mystery, glamour, and irony that make film noir surpassingly
popular.
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