FILM NOIR
EXPOSED
"First you dream, then you die."
-- Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
Talking about Cornell Woolrich--it is the
title of a story he never wrote but it best
represents his view of the world.
(from the Introduction to the Ballentine/Mystery
Series of Cornell Woolrich novels)
THE FILMS:
Rebecca (1940)
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Glass Key (1942)
This Gun For Hire (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Laura (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Detour (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Cornered (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Lady In The Lake (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Stranger (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
They Live By Night (1948)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949) (or 1950)
The Third Man (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
D. O. A. (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
The Big Heat (1953)
Niagara (1953)
The Big Combo (1955)
Diabolique (Fr.) (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Killing (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
THE BOOKS:
Non-Fiction:
Burroughs, Karen Hamsberry. Femme-Noir: Bad Girls of Film.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.
Burroughs, Karen Hamsberry. Bad Boys: The Actors of Film
Noir. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.
Borde, Raymond & Chaumeton, Etienne. A Panorama of American
Film Noir, 1941-1953. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2002.
Cameron, Ian. The Book of Film Noir. New York:
Continuum, 1992.
Christopher, Nicholas. Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and
the American City. New York: Henry Holt & Co., Inc.,
1998.
Cochran, David. America Noir: Underground Writers and
Filmmakers of the Postwar Era. Washington and London:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Copjec, Joan, ed. Shades of Noir. New York: Verso
Books, 1993.
Crowther, Bruce. Film Noir: Reflections In a Dark Mirror.
London: Columbus Publishing, 1988.
Dickos, Andrew. Street With No Name: A History of the Classic
American Film Noir. Kansas City: University of Kansas Press,
2002.
Gifford, Barry. Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir.
Oxford, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2001.
Hare, William & Annakin, Ken. Early Film Noir: Greed,
Lust and Murder Hollywood Style. Jefferson, NC: McFarland
& Co., 2003.
Hirsch, Foster. The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir.
Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2001.
Kaplan, E, Ann, ed. Women in Film Noir. London: British
Film Institute, 1999.
Keaney, Michael F. Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic
Era, 1940-1959. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.
Lyons, Arthur. Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film
Noir. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2000.
Muller, Eddie. Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Muller, Eddie. The Art of Noir: The Poster and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir. NY: Overlook Press, 2002.
Muller, Eddie. Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film
Noir. New York: Regan Books, 2002.
Naremore, James. More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts.
San Francisco: University of California Press, 1998.
Nourmand, Tony & Marsh, Graham & Nash, Graham. Film Posters of the Forties: The Essential Movies of the Decades. New York: Overlook Press, 2003.
Oliver, Kelly & Trigo, Benjamin. Noir Anxiety. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Rabinowitz, Paul. Black & White & Noir. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Selby, Spencer. Dark City: The Film Noir. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 1984.
Silver, Alan, & Ward, Elizabeth, eds. Film Noir: An
Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style. New York: Overlook
Press, 1993.
Silver, Alan & James Ursini, eds. Film Noir Reader. New York: Limelight Editions, 1996.
Silver, Alan & Ursini, James. The Noir Style. New York: Overlook Press, 1999.
Silver, Alan & Ursini, James & Perfirio, eds. Film Noir Readers3: Interviews With Film Makers of the Classic Noir Period. New York: Limelight Editions, 2002.
Spicer, Andrew. Film Noir. Boston: Longman
Publishing, 2002.
Telotte, J.P. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns
of Film Noir. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1989.
Tuska, Jon. Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural
Perspective. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1984.
Ward, Elizabeth & Silver, Alan. Raymond Chandler's Los
Angeles. New York: Overlook Press, 1997.
Fiction:
Cain, James M.
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
The Postman Always Rings Twice
All of them published by Vintage Press, 1989.
Chandler, Raymond
Farewell, My Lovely
Playback
The Big Sleep
The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister
The Long Goodbye
The Simple Art of Murder
All of them published by Vintage Press, 1988.
Hammett, Dashiell
Red Harvest
The Big Knockover, Selected Stories and Short Novels
The Continental Op
The Dain Curse
The Glass Key
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
Woman in the Dark
All of them published by Vintage Press, 1989.
THE WEBSITES:
Allan Gutherie's Noir Originals: Noir And Hardboiled Fiction
http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/
Film Noir
http://www.crimeculture.com/contents/Film%20Noir.html
(My webpage editor won't link this site.)
Fatal Women in the Hard-Boiled Fifties
http://www.crimeculture.com/contents/CFFFatalWomen.html
American Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction
http://www.crimeculture.com/contents/Hard-Boiled.html
Bright Lights Film Journal: Film Noir and Neo-Noir
http://www.brightlights.com/filmnoir.html
High Heels on Wet Pavement
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir/index.html
Night of the Soul
http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/nitesoul.htm
Shadows of FIlm Noir
http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/Shadows1.html
Richard Widmark: The Face of Film Noir
http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/widmark.html
James M. Cain: The Prince of Darkness
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,472454,00.html
Apollo Leisure Guide: Film Noir
http://apolloguide.com/mov_feat0820.htm
Film Noir Danger & Despair
http://www.noirfilm.com/
Film Noir: Classic Images
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir.htm
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/filmnoir.html
The Noir Files
http://www.culturecourt.com/F/Noir/NoirFiles.htm
Dark City: Film Noir & Fiction
http://www.eskimo.com/~noir/
Classic Noir Online
http://www.classicnoir.com
Tour Noir
http://www.tournoir.com
Noir City
http://www.noircity.com/
Reel Movie Critic
http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/id604.htm
Noir Cinema
http://www.noircinema.com/
MGM Film Noir
http://www.themave.com/Noir/Noir.html
Does Film Noir mirror the culture of contemporary America?
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noirxx.htm
The German-Hollywood Connection
http://www.germanhollywood.com/noir.html
Martin's Film Noir Page
http://www.martinsfilmnoir.com/
Dennis Schwartz's Noir Page
http://www.sover.net/~ozus/
What is this thing called film noir, anyway?
http://www.bighousefilm.com/noir_intro.htm
10 Shades of Noir
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm
No Place For A Woman: The Family in Film Noir
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/noir/index.html
Full-text Articles and Essays on FIlm Noir
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Noirtext.html
Introduction and Essays from Film Noir Reader
http://members.aol.com/alainsil/noir/index.htm
Film Noir Films
http://www.filmsite.org/film-noir.html
The Endurance of Film Noir
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1272/n2638_v127/20954321/p1/article.jhtml
On Film Noir in France
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/noirfilmsfr.html
Le Doulos
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/cinerma/chick/268/essays/DG_Le_doulos.html
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