The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir - Softcover

Hirsch, Foster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306810395 ISBN 13: 9780306810398

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2001

Synopsis

Since The Dark Side of the Screen first appeared two decades ago, when film noir was still a little-known group of dark, brooding postwar B-movies, it has become the essential take on what has become one of today's most pervasive screen influences and popular genres. Covering over a hundred outstanding films and offering nearly two hundred carefully chosen stills, this is by far the most thorough and entertaining study available of noir themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, and directors. Hirsch examines the features that make Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, and Humphrey Bogart into noir icons; as well as the camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize the work of such major noir directors as Fritz Lag, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles. With a complete list of credits to 112 films and a new introduction, Hirsch's work remains the classic analysis of the most original genre of American cinema.

About this title

About the Author:

Foster Hirsch, the author of fifteen books on film and theater, among them The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir and Kurt Weill on Stage , lives in New York City.

Review:

"Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise... A visual as well as literary pleasure." Martin Jackson, Cineaste"

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0306810395
• ISBN 13: 9780306810398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248