Out of the shadows
Subtitle: expanding the canon of classic film noir
By: Gene D. Phillips
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780810881891; 9780810881907
Subjects: Film noir; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: overlooked noir; title: City of night: the advent of film noir. The black mask brigade: Dashiell Hammett, hard-boiled fiction, and film noir; title: Exploring film noir: Stranger on the third floor and other films; title: Nightmare town: Dashiell Hammett's fiction as film noir; title: John Huston: The Maltese falcon; title: Stuart Heisler: The glass key; title: Edward Buzzell: Song of the thin man; title: Darkness at noon: representative noir films. Fritz Lang: Ministry of fear and Scarlet Street; title: Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a train; title: George Cukor: A double life; title: Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard; title: Robert Siodmak: The killers (1946); title: Don Siegel: The killers (1964); title: Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a murder; title: Fred Zinnemann: Act of violence; title: Stanley Kubrick: The killing; title: Orson Welles: The stranger and Touch of evil; title: The lower depths: the rise of neo-noir. Dashiell Hammett and neo-noir: The Dain curse and Hammett; title: Anthony Minghella: The talented Mr. Ripley; title: Liliana Cavani: Ripley's game; title: Afterword / by James Welsh.