Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style

by William Hare

Book Overview

The name is French and it has connections to German expressionist cinema, but film noir was inspired by the American Raymond Chandler, whose prose was marked by the gripping realism of seedy hotels, dimly lit bars, main streets, country clubs, mansions, cul-de-sac apartments, corporate boardrooms, and flop houses of America.

Chandler and the other writers and directors, including James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Jane Greer, Ken Annakin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786416297
• ISBN13: 9780786416295
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher