
Out of the Shadows
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In Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir, Gene Phillips provides an in-depth examination of several key noir films, including acknowledged masterpieces like Laura, The Maltese Falcon, Sunset Boulevard, and Touch of Evil, as well as films not often associated with film noir like Spellbound, A Double Life, and Anatomy of a Murder. Phillips also examines overlooked or underappreciated films such as Song of the Thin Man, The Glass Key, Ministry of Fear, and Act of Violence. Also considered in this reevaluation are significant neo-noir films, among them Chinatown, Hammett, L.A. Confidential, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
In his analyses, Phillips draws upon a number of sources, including personal interviews with directors and others connected with their productions, screenplays, and evaluations of other commentators. Out of the Shadows explores not only the most celebrated noir films but offers new insight into underrated films that deserve reconsideration. Of interest to film historians and scholars, this volume will also appeal to anyone who wants a better understanding of the works that represent this unique cycle in American filmmaking.
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Prologue: Overlooked Noir
PART ONE City of Night: The Advent of Film Noir
CHAPTER ONE Black Mask Brigade: Dashiell Hammett, Hard-Boiled Fiction, and Film Noir
CHAPTER TWO Exploring Film Noir: Stranger on the Third Floor and Other Films
PART TWO Nightmare Town: Dashiell Hammett's Fiction as Film Noir
CHAPTER THREE John Huston: The Maltese Falcon
CHAPTER FOUR Stuart Heisler: The Glass Key
Edward Buzzell: Song of the Thin Man
PART THREE Darkness at Noon: Representative Noir Films
CHAPTER FIVE Fritz Lang: Ministry of Fear and Scarlet Street
CHAPTER SIX Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound and Strangers on a Train
CHAPTER SEVEN George Cukor: A Double Life
Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard
CHAPTER EIGHT Robert Siodmak: The Killers (1946)
Don Siegel: The Killers (1964)
CHAPTER NINE Otto Preminger: Laura and Anatomy of a Murder
CHAPTER TEN Fred Zinnemann: Act of Violence
Stanley Kubrick: The Killing
CHAPTER ELEVEN Orson Welles: The Stranger and Touch of Evil
PART FOUR The Lower Depths: The Rise of Neo-Noir
CHAPTER TWELVE Dashiell Hammett and Neo-Noir: The Dain Curse and Hammett
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Anthony Minghella: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Liliana Cavani: Ripley's Game
Afterword by Jim Welsh
Filmography
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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