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Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir

Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre were fo

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Dickos, Andrew: – Andrew Dickos is the author of Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies and Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville. He is also the editor of Abraham Polonsky: Interviews. He is a commentator on Paramount Home Entertainment’s DVD of Preston Sturges’s The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek and contributed film noir content to the Columbia World of Quotations. He lives in New York City.

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Dimensions 8.9 × 6 × 0.9 in
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Author: Dickos, Andrew
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Paperback / 328pp

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