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Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir, Film noir was a cycle in American cinema that first became prominent during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and then tapered off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginning with St, Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir
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  • Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir
  • Written by author Gene D. Phillips
  • Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 11/3/2011
  • Film noir was a cycle in American cinema that first became prominent during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and then tapered off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from the period emerged as noir standards, beginning with St
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Acknowledgments vii

Prologue: Overlooked Noir ix

Part 1 City of Night: The Advent of Film Noir

Chapter 1 Black Mask Brigade: Dashiell Hammett, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Film Noir 3

Chapter 2 Exploring Film Noir: Stranger on the Third Floor and Other Films 13

Part 2 Nightmare Town: Dashiell Hammett's Fiction as Film Noir

Chapter 3 John Huston: The Maltese Falcon 29

Chapter 4 Stuart Heisler: The Glass Key Edward Buzzell: Song of the Thin Man 45

Part 3 Darkness at Noon: Representative Noir Films

Chapter 5 Fritz Lang: Ministry of Fear and Scarlet Street 69

Chapter 6 Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a Train 87

Chapter 7 George Cukor: A Double Life Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard 111

Chapter 8 Robert Siodmak: The Killers (1946) Don Siegel: The Killers (1964) 131

Chapter 9 Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a Murder 151

Chapter 10 Fred Zinnemann: Act of Violence Stanley Kubrick: The Killing 177

Chapter 11 Orson Welles: The Stranger and Touch of Evil 197

Part 4 The Lower Depths: The Rise of Neo-Noir

Chapter 12 Dashiell Hammett and Neo-Noir: The Dain Curse and Hammett 225

Chapter 13 Anthony Minghella: The Talented Mr. Ripley Liliana Cavani: Ripley's Game 247

Afterword Jim Welsh 265

Filmography 275

Selected Bibliography 287

Index 295

About the Author 307


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