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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Overlooked NoirPART ONE City of Night: The Advent of Film NoirCHAPTER ONE Black Mask Brigade: Dashiell Hammett, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Film NoirCHAPTER TWO Exploring Film Noir: Stranger on the Third Floor and Other FilmsPART TWO Nightmare Town: Dashiell Hammett's Fiction as Film NoirCHAPTER THREE John Huston: The Maltese FalconCHAPTER FOUR Stuart Heisler: The Glass Key Edward Buzzell: Song of the Thin ManPART THREE Darkness at Noon: Representative Noir FilmsCHAPTER FIVE Fritz Lang: Ministry of Fear and Scarlet StreetCHAPTER SIX Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a TrainCHAPTER SEVEN George Cukor: A Double LifeBilly Wilder: Sunset BoulevardCHAPTER EIGHT Robert Siodmak: The Killers (1946)Don Siegel: The Killers (1964)CHAPTER NINE Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a MurderCHAPTER TEN Fred Zinnemann: Act of ViolenceStanley Kubrick: The KillingCHAPTER ELEVEN Orson Welles: The Stranger and Touch of EvilPART FOUR The Lower Depths: The Rise of Neo-NoirCHAPTER TWELVE Dashiell Hammett and Neo-Noir: The Dain Curse and HammettCHAPTER THIRTEEN Anthony Minghella: The Talented Mr. RipleyLiliana Cavani: Ripley's GameAfterword by Jim WelshFilmographySelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author...
