The Big Book of Noir
By: edited by Lee Server, Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg.
Contributors: Server, Lee.; Gorman, Edward.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: May 21, 1997
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.; Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Description: Noir is big, so The Big Book of Noir jam-packs its pages with articles, interviews, excerpts, opinion, and gossip that chronicle its history and explore noir in all its forms: movies, detective stories, television and radio shows, comic books, and graphic novels.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION: Paint it Black: The Family Tree of Film Noir
title: Raymond Durgnat
pagenum: 1; label: I: FILM; label: FRITZ LANG REMEMBERS
title: Gene D. Phililips
pagenum: 17; label: MARLOWE’S MEAN STREETS: The Cinematic World of Raymond Chandler
title: William F. Nolan
pagenum: 27; label: A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE: Billy Wilder and the Hollywood Noir Mainstream
title: William Relling, jr.
pagenum: 37; label: ROBERT SIODMAK IN BLACK AND WHITE
title: Jean Pierre Coursodon
pagenum: 41; label: MARC LAWRENCE: The Last Gangster
title: Lee Server
pagenum: 47; label: THE MAKING OF THE NAKED CITY
title: Malvin Wald
pagenum: 55; label: DANIEL MAINWARING: An Interview
title: Tom Flinn
pagenum: 65; label: OUT OF THE PAST
title: Tom Flinn
pagenum: 69; label: FROM THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY: HUAC and the Pollitics of Noir
title: Philip Kemp
pagenum: 77; label: IF YOU DON”T GET KILLED IT”S A LUCKY DAY: A Conversation with Abraham Polonsky
title: Lee Server
pagenum: 87; label: THE NOVE AND FILMS OF NIGHT AND THE CITY
title: Paul Duncan
pagenum: 93; label: PHIL KARLSON: Dreams and Dead Ends
title: Jack Shadian
pagenum: 97; label: THE THIEVES’ MARKET: A.I. Bezzerides in Hollywood
title: Lee Server
pagenum: 115; label: THE WELLES TOUCH: Charlton Heston on Orson Welles
title: James Delson
pagenum: 123; label: SPY VS. SPY: John Huston and The Kremlin Letter
title: Peter Richards
pagenum: 131; label: FROM THE BIG SLEEP TO THE LONG GOODBYE:
title: Leigh Brackett
pagenum: 137; label: KILL ME AGAIN: The Rise of Nouveau Noir
title: Stephen Hunter
pagenum: 143; label: TRUE CONFESSIONS
title: Jon L. Breen
pagenum: 149; label: THE BLACK LIST: ESSENTIAL FILM NOIR
title: Lee Server
pagenum: 153; label: II: FICTION; label: THE LAST DAYS OF CORNELL WOOLRICH I: “Cornell George Hopley Woolrich”
title: Barry N. Malzberg
pagenum: 163; label: THE LAST DAYS OF CORNELL WOOLRICH II: “Con”
title: Don Yates
pagenum: 166; label: MY FRIEND FREDRIC BROWN
title: Walt Sheldon
pagenum: 171; label: WARNING! WARNING! HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED LUNATICS!
title: Stephen King
pagenum: 177; label: GOLDEN HARVEST: Twenty-Five-Cent Paperbacks
title: Ed Gorman
pagenum: 183; label: FORGOTTEN WRITERS: Gil Brewer
title: Bill Pronzini
pagenum: 191; label: HARRY WHITTINGTON
title: Bill Crider
pagenum: 201; label: JOHN D. MACDONALD
title: Ed Gorman
pagenum: 209; label: “I KILL ‘EM BY THE INCH!”
title: Steve Holland
pagenum: 213; label: LION BOOKS: Noir Paperback Icons
title: Gary Lovisi
pagenum: 223; label: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARNOLD HANO
title: George Tuttle
pagenum: 227; label: MECCA SPILLANE
title: Max Allan Collins
pagenum: 231; label: SÉRIE NOIRE
title: Etienne Borgers
pagenum: 237; label: LEW ARCHER AS CULTURE MAVEN
title: Burton Kendle
pagenum: 245; label: FIFTEEN IMPRESSIONS OF CHARLES WILLIAMS
title: Ed Gorman
pagenum: 251; label: A TOO BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH PETER RABE
title: George Tuttle
pagenum: 255; label: DELL FIRST EDITIONS
title: Bill Crider
pagenum: 263; label: INTERVIEW WITH DONALD WESTLAKE
title: Charles L.P. Silet
pagenum: 267; label: CHESTER HIMES: America’s Black Heartland
title: James Stallis
pagenum: 273; label: DONALD HAMILTON
title: Robert Skinner
pagenum: 281; label: HIGHSMITH’S RIPLEY FROM VILLAIN TO VIGILANTE
title: Noel Mawer
pagenum: 291; label: NOR HERSELF MEAN: Hard-Boiled and Female, Without Contradiction
title: Dulcy Brainard
pagenum: 297; label: FROM UNDER HAMMET’S MASK
title: Dick Lochte
pagenum: 305; label: CHARLES WILLEFORD:An Interview
title: Sybil Steinberg
pagenum: 313; label: FRESH BLOOD: British Neo-Noir
title: Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski
pagenum: 317; label: LARRY BLOCK
title: James Sallis
pagenum: 323; label: WHO’S IN THE ROOM
title: Bill Crider
pagenum: 325; label: AUTHOR NOTES
title: Jon L. Breen
pagenum: 327; label: AUTHORS
title: Ed Gorman and Lee Server
pagenum: 331; label: III: COMIC BOOKS; label: COMIC BOOK NOIR
title: Ron Goulart
pagenum: 337; label: IV: RADIO & TELEVISION; label: RADIO NOIR
title: William Nadel
pagenum: 347; label: HOWARD DUFF AND THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE
title: Mark Dawidziak
pagenum: 353; label: JACK WEBB: TV’s Noir Arteur
title: Max Allan Collins
pagenum: 363; label: SHADOWS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM: Peter Gunn, Johnny Staccato, and the Lost Age of TV Noir
title: Lee Server
pagenum: 367; label: CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTES
pagenum: 371; label: COPYRIGHTS
pagenum: 376; label: INDEX
pagenum: 378