| Description |
1 online resource (533 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Reader's Note; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; Filmography; About the Author |
| Summary |
Film noirliterally "black cinema"is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noirfilm, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a retrospective label that was not used in the 1940s or 1950s by the film industry as a production category and therefore its existence and features cannot be established through reference to trade documents. The |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Film noir -- Dictionaries
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Crime films -- Dictionaries
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Crime films
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Film noir
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Film noir.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780810873780 |
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0810873788 |
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