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Professor Andrew Spicer - Historical Dictionary of Film Noir - 9780810859609 - V9780810859609
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Historical Dictionary of Film Noir

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Description for Historical Dictionary of Film Noir Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 532 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 760.
Film noir—literally "black cinema"—is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not used in the 1940s or 1950s by the film industry as a production category and therefore its existence and features cannot be established through reference to trade documents. The Historical Dictionary of Film ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
532
Condition
New
Series
Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Number of Pages
532
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810859609
SKU
V9780810859609
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99-15

About Professor Andrew Spicer
Andrew Spicer is reader in Cultural History at the University of the West of England. He has published widely on British Cinema and on Film Noir.

Reviews for Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
This dictionary by Spicer (Univ. of the West of England) is the latest entry in a series that has featured, in the last few years, volumes on German, Italian, Russian, Middle Eastern, and Spanish cinema, among others....In all, Spicer offers more than 400 concise, cross-referenced entries covering noir from the 1940s to the present, including entries for actors (e.g., John ... Read more

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