Street with No Name
Subtitle: A History of the Classic American Film Noir
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780813122434
Subjects: Films, cinema; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Film Noir; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; United States; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film & Video - General; History and criticism
First sentence: It is perhaps most useful to consider the development of the film noir as the confluence of cinematic changes that, in themselves, are found in other kinds of films without the specific resonances and appeals that in play with one another establish the coherent mythology that we recognize as noir cinema.
Description: Traces the genre of film noir back to German and French roots. Describes the developent of the genre in the United States and examines its expression in modern cinema.