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A comprehensive encyclopedia of film noir : the essential reference guide / John Grant.

by Grant, John, 1949-

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Limelight Editions, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation, 2013.

791.436556 G762c

Film noir -- History and criticism.

Film noir -- Encyclopedias.

9781557838315 (hc.)

1557838313 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Encyclopedia of film noir : the essential reference guide

Film noir : the essential reference guide

vii, 765 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 761-765) and filmographies (pages 725-760)

"Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, doublecrossers, femmes fatales, and of course losers who find themselves down on their luck yet again, film noir is a perennially popular cinematic genre. It is also an international one. The most extensive coverage yet of the US output of film noir, with entries on well over 2,000 US noirs and neonoirs, including entries on over a thousand films noirs from elsewhere around the world; in all, nearly sixty countries are represented--from every continent except Antarctica. The scope is broad not just in geographical terms but also chronologically. Entries cover some of noir's ancestors from both Hollywood and European cinema, and make the case by example that film noir, as we can recognize it, began not in 1941 with The Maltese Falcon, as many claim, but years before. The encyclopedia's coverage of films of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries includes movies from all over the world and from such offshoot genres as the erotic thriller, animated noir (e.g., Sin City [2005]), and sciencefictional noir (e.g., Blade Runner [1982]). Over 3,250 alphabetically arranged main movie entries and about 1,500 cross-references. These guide readers through the maze of alternative titles and also lead to briefer discussions of several hundred additional movies within the main entries. The appendix includes filmographies of prominent directors, actors, and writers. With coverage of blockbusters and program fillers from 1916's Going Straight to 2013's Broken City, via Nora Inu (Japan 1949), O Anthropos tou Trainou (Greece 1958), El Less Wal Kilab (Egypt 1962), Reportaje a la Muerte (Peru 1993), Zift (Bulgaria 2008), and thousands more - not to forget innumerable Hollywood classics like Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), Double Indemnity (1944), Laura (1944), Gilda (1946) and Out of the Past (1947) - this is an engrossing reference work." - Publisher's description.

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