num_pages: 208
description: Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, who led readers on a guided tour of the seamier side of motion pictures in Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema, now takes us on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, when art, politics, scandal, style--and brilliant craftsmanship--produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology. Dark City is a 1999 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical / Biographical Work.
language: English
title: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
titlecomplete: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
characters: Barbara Stanwyck
genres: 20th Century, Media Tie In, History, Crime, Pop Culture, Reference, Noir, Film, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 573
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Critical/Biographical, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Critical Work
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin