Roots of Film Noir

Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8748-3
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Individual reviews of more than 90 films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. At the end of 1941, The Maltese Falcon ushered in the classic epoch of noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered in this text.

The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin Grant is a film historian and periodical journalist living in London.