Historical Dictionary of Film Noir

by Andrew Spicer

Book Overview

Film noir-literally "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 noir film, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810859602
• ISBN13: 9780810859609
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"