Title: Film noir : light and shadow /
Authors: Silver, Alain, 1947-; Ursini, James
Year: 2017
Subjects: Film noir United States History and criticism
Abstract: A new anthology from Silver and Ursini, longtime expert commentators of the noir movement. This book focuses on the visual style of the classic period through essays that consider individual films, directors, stylistic elements, or subgroups of movies in the film noir style. There are updated versions of key articles and original essays from other experts in the field.
Contents: Some visual motifs of film noir / Janey A. Place & Lowell S. Peterson -- The gangster and film noir / Alain Silver -- The noir title sequence : evolution of style / Robert G. Porfirio -- Rooms like reveries ; interiors and interiority in film noir / Imogen Sara Smith -- Women's song and dance performances in film noir / Christophe Gelly and Delphine Letort -- The long take and the sequence shot in film noir / Alain Silver -- The sequence shot : spatial and temporal articulations in The Killers / Robert G. Porfirio -- "A gay web woven by a thousand spiders" : dream sequence construction in film noir / Marlisa Santos -- Hollywood noir : scripting the death of romance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and In a Lonely Place (1950) / Robert Miklitsch -- Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) / R. Barton Palmer -- Welles, Toland, Aldrich, and Baroque noir expressionism / Tony Williams -- Double Indemnity : a shadow exemplar of film noir visual style / Sheri Chinen Biesen -- Fragments of the mirror : Hitchcock's noir landscape / Alain Silver -- Realism, expressionism, style : The Unsuspected (1947) and The Big Clock (1948) / Robert G. Porfirio -- Crossfire and homeland insecurity / Homer B. Pettey -- Ida Lupino's television noir / Julie Grossman -- In the dark : the noir visual style of Russell Metty / Ronald W. Wilson -- Nothingness and purpose : light and shadow in It's a Wonderful Life / Todd Erickson -- "The dynamism of violent death" : lighting, censorship, and violence in film noir / Jesse Schlotterbeck -- Nine elements of style in Kiss Me Deadly / Alain Silver -- "We couldn't always stay in the dark" : stylistic innovation in Richard Fleischer's Violent Saturday / William Covey -- Inscribing film noir's epitaph : self-consciousness and visual punning in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil / Richard L. Edwards.