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San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present - Softcover

 
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All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided the ideal setting for many of the greatest films noir, from classics like The Maltese Falcon and Dark Passage to obscure treasures like Woman on the Run and D.O.A., and neo-noirs like Point Blank and The Conversation. Readers visit the Mission Dolores cemetery where James Stewart spied Kim Novak visiting Carlotta's grave in Vertigo; the Steinhart Aquarium, where a steamy love scene unfolded between Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai; and the Kezar Stadium, where Clint Eastwood captures the serial killer, Scorpio, in a blaze of ghastly white light in Dirty Harry. In this guide to the great films noir and the locations where they were shot, the mythic noir city meets San Francisco's own dark past. With period film stills.

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Nathaniel Rich is the author of two novels: Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor's Tongue. His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times MagazineHarper's, The Paris ReviewVanity FairVice, and Rolling Stone, among other publications.
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"A smart, highly readable critical overview of some of the most interesting movies in the noir tradition." -- Richard Schickel

"As guidebook (it) is highly, refreshingly literary . . . (and) gets its job done gallantly." -- Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle, June 5, 2005

"Nathaniel Rich has written a fascinating work of criticism disguised as a guided tour around a great city." -- Martin Scorsese

"[N]icely double-barreled: use it to unearth buried film noir treasures . . . [and] some of San Francisco's most intriguing mystery spots. " -- Eddie Muller, author of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir

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  • PublisherLittle Bookroom
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1892145308
  • ISBN 13 9781892145307
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages168
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