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Gene D. Phillips - Out of the Shadows - 9780810881891 - V9780810881891
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Out of the Shadows

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Description for Out of the Shadows Hardcover. Out of the Shadows explores the most celebrated examples of film noir such as Laura, The Maltese Falcon, and Sunset Boulevard but also offers new insight into underrated films that deserve reconsideration, including Spellbound, A Double Life, Anatomy of a Murder, and others. Num Pages: 322 pages, 27 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 632.
Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginning with Stranger on the Third Floor in 1940. However, since film noir is too wide-ranging, it cannot be kept within the narrow limits of the official canon that has been established by film historians. Consequently, several neglected movies made during the classic noir period need to be re-evaluated as noir films. In ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810881891
SKU
V9780810881891
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About Gene D. Phillips
Gene D. Phillips, S.J. is the author of several works on film and literature, including David Lean: Beyond the Epic (2006) and Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder (2010). He is the coauthor of The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia (Scarecrow, 2010).

Reviews for Out of the Shadows
World War II and the increased public acceptance of psychiatry in the 1940s led to the rise of a new film genre, film noir. Noir was marked by convoluted story lines; seamy settings; hard-boiled, morally compromised antiheroes; and scheming, manipulative femmes fatales. Phillips (Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder) writes that key noir films ... Read more

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