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Author:   Jim Hillier ,  Jim Hillier
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781844572168

ISBN 10:   1844572161
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   18 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

BFI SCREEN GUIDES.- 100 FILM NOIRS FINAL.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 100 Films:.- 36, Quai des orfèvres (Olivier Marchal, 2004).- The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977).- Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950).- La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938).- The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis, 1955).- The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953).- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946).- Blast of Silence (Alan Baron, 1961).- The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, 1946).- Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947).- Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947).- Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947).- Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1947).- Castle of Sand (Nomura Yoshitaro, 1974).- The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946).- Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974).- C.I.D. (Raj Khosla, India, 1954).- Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004).- Cornered (Edward Dmytryk, 1945).- Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1948).- The Crooked Way (Robert Florey, 1949).- Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947).- Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak, 1948).- The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway, 1946).- Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947).- Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947).- Death of a Cyclist (Javier Bardem, 1955).- Death is a Caress (Edith Carlmar, 1949).- Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945).- Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, 1995).- D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté, 1949).- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944).- The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978).- Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945).- Fear in the Night (Maxwell Shane, 1947).- Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948).- A Foreign Land (Walter Salles, Brazil).- Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971).- Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946).- The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, 1942).- Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis, 1949).- He Ran All the Way (John Berry, 1951).- He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker, 1949).- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963).- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005).- The Hitch-hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953).- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, 2003).- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950).- I Married a Communist (Robert Stevenson, 1949).- I Wake Up Screaming (H Bruce Humberstone, 1942).- I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, 1948).- Journey into Fear (Norman Foster/Orson Welles, 1942).- Le Jour se lève (Marcel Carné, 1939).- Lift to the Scaffold (Louis Malle, 1957).- The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946).- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick 1956).- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955).- Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, 1947).- LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997).- The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947).- The Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery, 1946).- Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944).- The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973).- The Lost One (Peter Lorre, 1951).- M (Fritz Lang, 1931).- Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003).- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941).- Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945).- Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001).- Murder My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944).- The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, 1952).- Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950).- Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947).- Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975).- Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947).- Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959).- On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1951).- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947).- Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944).- Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953).- Pitfall (André de Toth, 1948).- Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967).- The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946).- Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947).- Quai des orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947).- The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls, 1949).- Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955).- Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945).- Shoot the Pianist (François Truffaut, 1960).- Side Street (Anthony Mann, 1950).- Sin City (Frank Miller and Roberto Rodriguez, 2005).- Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950).- Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950).- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976).- They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948).- T Men (Anthony Mann, 1947).- Touchez

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'100 Film Noirs offers many insights into the history and visual grammar of the genre and provides the perfect excuse to revisit some classics and discover some forgotten masterpieces.' - PD Smith, The Guardian '100 Film Noirs has a strong international dimension and provides new and revealing insights into film noirs from France, Germany, Japan, India, Mexico and beyond' - Sight and Sound Both a treasure trove of facts and a taster for those keen to find out more about the seamier side of life...' PinkPaper.com

Author Information

JIM HILLIER is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Reading. His publications include American Independent Cinema (2001), The Film Studies Dictionary (2000) and Howard Hawks: American Artist (1996). ALASTAIR PHILLIPS is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Rififi (2008) and the co-editor of Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts (2007) and of Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood (2006).

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