Film Noir Graphics: Where Danger Lives

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About the Author Together Alain Silver and James Ursini have written THE NOIR STYLE, FILM NOIR (Taschen), and LA NOIR, THE CITY AS CHARACTER. They have edited FILM NOIR: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA, four FILM NOIR READERs, and most recently FILM NOIR THE DIRECTORS. As experts on noir’s classic period, they have also provided commentaries for numerous classic period DVDs: Murder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, Thieves' Highway, Call Northside 777, Panic in the Streets, The Dark Corner, Double Indemnity, Kiss of Death, The Street with No Name, Crossfire, Lady in the Lake, Nightmare Alley, Brute Force, Tension, Mystery Street, Where Danger Lives and Kiss Me Deadly. Other books include THE VAMPIRE FILM, MORE THINGS THAN ARE DREAMT OF, director studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich and Roger Corman, and HORROR and GANGSTER FILM READERs. Read more

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Silver and Ursini's FILM NOIR GRAPHICS is a superb little volume where the authors have selected a variety of posters according to the major themes in the noir canon and enlighted this reader about the art of each poster, nationally or internationally produced. It is shorter than Muller's more costly THE ART OF FILM NOIR, but I would recommend Silver's book because it is more manegable physically and altho Muller and Silver go over similar material, Silver has the edge in describing the nuances of each poster. And it costs less than Mullers! Although I would recommend buying Muller's book to complete the entire view of film noir poster art.One glaring error on p. 168 in Silver's description of the lower still in th4 poster of CLASH BY NIGHT. It is not Barbara Stanwyck in the bra and bathing suit but Marilyn Monroe being playfully strangled by Keith Andes with a towel around her neck, warning her about infidelity. Otherwise, the book is completley on target and would highly recommnd it for noir readers to buy. I purchased this book from Amazon since I could not find it in a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Manhattan.Also, I wish I could have had some of these posters in the 3 film noir books I have written: NOIR, NOW & THEN (Greenwood Press) 2001, NEO-NOIR (Scarecrow Press)Paperback,2005 and HOUSES OF NOIR: DARK VISIONS FROM THIRTEEN FILM STUDIOS (McFarland Publishing)a paperback to be published on 30 Sept. 2013.Taking a "break" from noir, I also published two other film books: LATIN AMERICAN FILMS 1932-1994)a hardbound, 1997 and & 2005 paperback with a scene from EL MARIACHI on the cover(both from McFarland Press)and GREAT SPANISH FILMS SINCE 1950, Scarecrow Press, 2008, winner of the Library Journal Award for Best Reference that year with a scene from Fernando Trueba's romantic film BELLE EPOQUE (The Age of Beauty)on the cover. As you can tell, Spanish and Latin American films are my other loves besises film noir.Dr. Ronald Schwartz, author, Manhattan, New York

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