Whether it’s Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller examine noir’s key themes and their most representative movies from 1940 to 1960.Copiously illustrated with film stills as well as original posters, this book offers page after page of noir’s masterful visual compositions while exploring the narrative paradigms of this cryptic, compelling, and evolving genre. If that weren’t enough to tickle your cinematic appetite, the volume concludes with TASCHEN’s top 50 pick of noir classics.
Brimming with the enigmatic dames, desperate gangsters, and psycho killers that continue to cast a long and captivating shadow over cinema, this is a must-have handbook for noir aficionados and amateurs alike.
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El productor, crítico e historiador de cine Alain Silver ha escrito una veintena de libros relacionados con el cine, incluidos The Noir Style, LA Noir, la colección Film Noir Reader y, de la serie Icon de TASCHEN, Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra y Katharine Hepburn. Ha sido comentarista de audio de clásicos del cine negro en formato DVD como Yo creo en ti y Perdición. Miembro de las asociaciones de realizadores, de actores y de guionistas de Estados Unidos, Silver se licenció en producción y crítica cinematográficos en la Universidad de California.
James Ursini ha coescrito y coeditado once libros con Alain Silver; Ursini y Silver están considerados dos de las principales autoridades en el tema del cine negro. Entre las obras más notables de Ursini, se encuentra la exitosa serie Film Noir Reader. También ha colaborado con artículos en varias revistas de cine y ha provisto los comentarios para las versiones en DVD de numerosos clásicos del cine negro. Posee un doctorado en cine y ha dado clases de realización cinematográfica en universidades del área de Los Ángeles.
Paul Duncan es un historiador de cine cuyos títulos para TASCHEN incluyen The James Bond Archives, The Charlie Chaplin Archives, The Godfather Family Album, Taxi Driver, Film Noir y Horror Cinema, además de libros sobre directores de cine, géneros cinematográficos, estrellas de la gran pantalla y carteles de películas.
Jürgen Müller estudió historia del arte en Bochum, París, Pisa y Ámsterdam. Ejerce de crítico de arte y conservador en numerosas exposiciones de arte, y ha impartido clases como profesor invitado en un gran número de universidades. Es autor de varios libros y de numerosos ensayos sobre historia del arte y temas relacionados con el cine. Actualmente es profesor de Historia del Arte en la Universidad Técnica de Dresde, ciudad en la que reside.
Into the Night
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