Imaginary Biographies

by Geoff Klock

In 1946 French film critic Nino Frank, having just seen The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Laura, and Murder, My Sweet linked them all with the term "film noir." No one working on these projects knew they were making film noirs; Frank invented a label that connected them after the fact, and it is because of his label that the genre became famous. Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets aims to do for poetry what Frank did for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826428029
• ISBN13: 9780826428028
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"