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An edition of The Big Book of Noir (1997)

The Big Book of Noir

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Noir is big, so The Big Book of Noir jam-packs its pages with articles, interviews, excerpts, opinion, and gossip that chronicle its history and explore noir in all its forms: movies, detective stories, television and radio shows, comic books, and graphic novels.

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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Language
English
Pages
386

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Film noir, History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, American Noir fiction, Motion pictures, history, Film criticism, Literature, Collections, Essays
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Paint it Black: The Family Tree of Film Noir. Raymond Durgnat
Page 1
I: FILM.
FRITZ LANG REMEMBERS. Gene D. Phililips
Page 17
MARLOWE’S MEAN STREETS: The Cinematic World of Raymond Chandler. William F. Nolan
Page 27
A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE: Billy Wilder and the Hollywood Noir Mainstream. William Relling, jr.
Page 37
ROBERT SIODMAK IN BLACK AND WHITE. Jean Pierre Coursodon
Page 41
MARC LAWRENCE: The Last Gangster. Lee Server
Page 47
THE MAKING OF THE NAKED CITY. Malvin Wald
Page 55
DANIEL MAINWARING: An Interview. Tom Flinn
Page 65
OUT OF THE PAST. Tom Flinn
Page 69
FROM THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY: HUAC and the Pollitics of Noir. Philip Kemp
Page 77
IF YOU DON”T GET KILLED IT”S A LUCKY DAY: A Conversation with Abraham Polonsky. Lee Server
Page 87
THE NOVE AND FILMS OF NIGHT AND THE CITY. Paul Duncan
Page 93
PHIL KARLSON: Dreams and Dead Ends. Jack Shadian
Page 97
THE THIEVES’ MARKET: A.I. Bezzerides in Hollywood. Lee Server
Page 115
THE WELLES TOUCH: Charlton Heston on Orson Welles. James Delson
Page 123
SPY VS. SPY: John Huston and The Kremlin Letter. Peter Richards
Page 131
FROM THE BIG SLEEP TO THE LONG GOODBYE:. Leigh Brackett
Page 137
KILL ME AGAIN: The Rise of Nouveau Noir. Stephen Hunter
Page 143
TRUE CONFESSIONS. Jon L. Breen
Page 149
THE BLACK LIST: ESSENTIAL FILM NOIR. Lee Server
Page 153
II: FICTION.
THE LAST DAYS OF CORNELL WOOLRICH I: “Cornell George Hopley Woolrich”. Barry N. Malzberg
Page 163
THE LAST DAYS OF CORNELL WOOLRICH II: “Con”. Don Yates
Page 166
MY FRIEND FREDRIC BROWN. Walt Sheldon
Page 171
WARNING! WARNING! HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED LUNATICS!. Stephen King
Page 177
GOLDEN HARVEST: Twenty-Five-Cent Paperbacks. Ed Gorman
Page 183
FORGOTTEN WRITERS: Gil Brewer. Bill Pronzini
Page 191
HARRY WHITTINGTON. Bill Crider
Page 201
JOHN D. MACDONALD. Ed Gorman
Page 209
“I KILL ‘EM BY THE INCH!”. Steve Holland
Page 213
LION BOOKS: Noir Paperback Icons. Gary Lovisi
Page 223
AN INTERVIEW WITH ARNOLD HANO. George Tuttle
Page 227
MECCA SPILLANE. Max Allan Collins
Page 231
SÉRIE NOIRE. Etienne Borgers
Page 237
LEW ARCHER AS CULTURE MAVEN. Burton Kendle
Page 245
FIFTEEN IMPRESSIONS OF CHARLES WILLIAMS. Ed Gorman
Page 251
A TOO BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH PETER RABE. George Tuttle
Page 255
DELL FIRST EDITIONS. Bill Crider
Page 263
INTERVIEW WITH DONALD WESTLAKE. Charles L.P. Silet
Page 267
CHESTER HIMES: America’s Black Heartland. James Stallis
Page 273
DONALD HAMILTON. Robert Skinner
Page 281
HIGHSMITH’S RIPLEY FROM VILLAIN TO VIGILANTE. Noel Mawer
Page 291
NOR HERSELF MEAN: Hard-Boiled and Female, Without Contradiction. Dulcy Brainard
Page 297
FROM UNDER HAMMET’S MASK. Dick Lochte
Page 305
CHARLES WILLEFORD:An Interview. Sybil Steinberg
Page 313
FRESH BLOOD: British Neo-Noir. Mike Ripley and Maxim Jakubowski
Page 317
LARRY BLOCK. James Sallis
Page 323
WHO’S IN THE ROOM. Bill Crider
Page 325
AUTHOR NOTES. Jon L. Breen
Page 327
AUTHORS. Ed Gorman and Lee Server
Page 331
III: COMIC BOOKS.
COMIC BOOK NOIR. Ron Goulart
Page 337
IV: RADIO & TELEVISION.
RADIO NOIR. William Nadel
Page 347
HOWARD DUFF AND THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE. Mark Dawidziak
Page 353
JACK WEBB: TV’s Noir Arteur. Max Allan Collins
Page 363
SHADOWS IN YOUR LIVING ROOM: Peter Gunn, Johnny Staccato, and the Lost Age of TV Noir. Lee Server
Page 367
CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTES.
Page 371
COPYRIGHTS.
Page 376
INDEX.
Page 378

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York City, New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700/.455
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.F54 B54 1998, PN1995.9.F54B54 1998, PN1995.9.F54 B54 1998g

The Physical Object

Format
Trade paperback
Pagination
ix, 386 p. :
Number of pages
386

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6803583M
Internet Archive
bigbookofnoir0000unse
ISBN 10
0786705744
LCCN
00265834
OCLC/WorldCat
40099315
LibraryThing
706360
Goodreads
911751

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OL19349010W

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