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Author: Robert Polito
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1598531530
Size: 32.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012-04
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF American Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of classic stories exemplify the best of American noir fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547577443
Size: 60.76 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Best American Noir Of The Century eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Collects the best noir writing from 1910 to 2010, including works by James M. Cain, Joyce Carol Oates, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Evan Hunter, Mickey Spillane, Patricia Highsmith, and William Gay.

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Author: John Buntin
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307352080
Size: 42.99 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2010-04-06
Category: True Crime
Language: en
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Download PDF L A Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

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Author: James M. Cain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788417978655
Size: 14.17 MB
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Language: es
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Download PDF American Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Cochran
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588345505
Size: 41.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-06-21
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF America Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family. Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone featured victims of vast, faceless, bureaucratic powers. Jim Thompson's noir thrillers, such as The Grifters, portrayed the ravages of capitalism on those at the bottom of the social ladder. Patricia Highsmith, in The Talented Mr. Ripley, placed an amoral con man in an international setting, implicitly questioning America's fitness as leader of the free world. Charles Willeford's pulp novels, such as Wild Wives and Woman Chaser, depicted the family as a hotbed of violence and chaos. These artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between “high” and “low” art. Their refusal to surrender to the pressures for political conformity and their unflinching portrayal of the underside of American life paved the way for the emergence of a 1960s counterculture that forever changed the way America views itself.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dennis Lehane
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617751995
Size: 50.51 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-10-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Usa Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Features Dennis Lehane’s story “Animal Rescue,” the inspiration for the movie The Drop starring Tom Hardy. Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. The stories in USA Noir “represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies, and the list of contributors include virtually anyone who’s made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade . . . a must-have anthology” (Booklist, starred review). Featuring stories by: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Megan Abbott, Elyssa East, James W. Hall, J. Malcolm Garcia, Julie Smith, Joseph Bruchac, Pir Rothenberg, Luis Alberto Urrea, Domenic Stansberry, John O’Brien, S.J. Rozan, Asali Solomon, William Kent Krueger, Tim Broderick, Bharti Kirchner, Karen Karbo, and Lisa Sandlin. One of Zoom Street Magazine’s Favorite Books of 2014 One of “100 Best Books for Readers Young and Old,” HispanicBusiness.com “Perhaps the single most impressive feature of the collection is its range of voices, from Joyce Carol Oates’ faux innocent young family to Megan Abbott’s impressionable high school kids to the chorus of peremptory voices S.J. Rozan plants in a haunted thief’s head. Eat your heart out, Walt Whitman: These are the folks who hear America singing, and moaning and screaming.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Book Detail:
Author: Erik Dussere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199969922
Size: 26.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF America Is Elsewhere eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.

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Book Detail:
Author: James M. Cain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788492840991
Size: 67.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Language: es
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Download PDF American Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Raymond Borde
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872864122
Size: 53.19 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2002
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF A Panorama Of American Film Noir 1941 1953 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.

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Author: William Marling
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820320811
Size: 77.13 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1998-10-01
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF The American Roman Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In The American Roman Noir, William Marling reads classic hard-boiled fiction and film in the contexts of narrative theories and American social and cultural history. His search for the origins of the dark narratives that emerged during the 1920s and 1930s leads to a sweeping critique of Jazz-Age and Depression-era culture. Integrating economic history, biography, consumer product design, narrative analysis, and film scholarship, Marling makes new connections between events of the 1920s and 1930s and the modes, styles, and genres of their representation. At the center of Marling's approach is the concept of "prodigality": how narrative represents having, and having had, too much. Never before in the country, he argues, did wealth impinge on the national conscience as in the 1920s, and never was such conscience so sharply rebuked as in the 1930s. What, asks Marling, were the paradigms that explained accumulation and windfall, waste and failure? Marling first establishes a theoretical and historical context for the notion of prodigality. Among the topics he discusses are such watershed events as the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the premiere of the first sound movie, The Jazz Singer; technology's alteration of Americans' perceptive and figurative habits; and the shift from synecdochical to metonymical values entailed by a consumer society. Marling then considers six noir classics, relating them to their authors' own lives and to the milieu of prodigality that produced them and which they sought to explain: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon, James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Reading these narratives first as novels, then as films, Marling shows how they employed the prodigality fabula's variations and ancillary value systems to help Americans adapt--for better or worse--to a society driven by economic and technological forces beyond their control.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ivy Wilson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382366
Size: 21.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-05
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Whitman Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Explores the meaning of blacks and blackness in Whitman's imagination and, equally significant, also illuminates the aura of Whitman in African American letters from Langston Hughes to June Jordan, Margaret Walker to Yusef Komunyakaa. The essay, which feature academic scholars and poets alike, address questions of literary history, the textual interplay between author and narrator, and race and poetic influence."--Page [4] of cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard B. Schwartz
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826263097
Size: 40.31 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2002
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Nice And Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers. Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction explores the work of these writers, building upon a reading of almost seven hundred novels from the 1980s and 1990s. By looking at recurring themes in these mysteries, Schwartz offers readers new ways to approach the works in relation to contemporary cultural concerns.

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Book Detail:
Author: Nicholas Christopher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439137611
Size: 77.46 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2010-05-11
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
View: 1972
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Download PDF Somewhere In The Night eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Film noir is more than a cinematic genre. It is an essential aspect of American culture. Along with the cowboy of the Wild West, the denizen of the film noir city is at the very center of our mythological iconography. Described as the style of an anxious victor, film noir began during the post-war period, a strange time of hope and optimism mixed with fear and even paranoia. The shadow of this rich and powerful cinematic style can now be seen in virtually every artistic medium. The spectacular success of recent neo-film noirs is only the tip of an iceberg. In the dead-on, nocturnal jazz of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, the chilled urban landscapes of Edward Hopper, and postwar literary fiction from Nelson Algren and William S. Burroughs to pulp masters like Horace McCoy, we find an unsettling recognition of the dark hollowness beneath the surface of the American Dream. Acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Christopher explores the cultural identity of film noir in a seamless, elegant, and enchanting work of literary prose. Examining virtually the entire catalogue of film noir, Christopher identifies the central motif as the urban labyrinth, a place infested with psychosis, anxiety, and existential dread in which the noir hero embarks on a dangerously illuminating quest. With acute sensitivity, he shows how technical devices such as lighting, voice over, and editing tempo are deployed to create the film noir world. Somewhere in the Night guides us through the architecture of this imaginary world, be it shot in New York or Los Angeles, relating its elements to the ancient cultural archetypes that prefigure it. Finally, Christopher builds an explanation of why film noir not only lives on but is currently enjoying a renaissance. Somewhere in the Night can be appreciated as a lucid introduction to a fundamental style of American culture, and also as a guide to film noir's heyday. Ultimately, though, as the work of a bold talent adeptly manipulating poetic cadence and metaphor, it is itself a superb aesthetic artifact.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alistair Rolls
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230244823
Size: 21.73 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2009-08-21
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF French And American Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Lingeman
Publisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 1568584369
Size: 15.74 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2012-12-04
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Noir Forties eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Examines the social, political and popular culture of America in the period between VJ Day and the start of the Korean War, discussing the country's anxieties and insecurities at the onset of the Red Scare and the Cold War. 15,000 first printing.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813931894
Size: 75.59 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Fatalism In American Film Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book reveals the ways in which American film noir explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the acknowledgment of such limitations.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Polito
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598534254
Size: 46.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2012-03-29
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF David Goodis Five Noir Novels Of The 1940s 50s Loa 225 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noir gathered, in two volumes, eleven classic works of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s--among them David Goodis's moody and intensely lyrical masterpiece Down There, adapted by François Truffaut for his 1960 film Shoot the Piano Player. Now, The Library of America and editor Robert Polito team up again to celebrate the full scope of Goodis's signature style with this landmark volume collecting five great novels from the height of his career. Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia- born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage); an artist whose life turns nightmarish because of a cache of stolen money (Nightfall); a dockworker seeking to comprehend his sister's brutal death (The Moon in the Gutter); a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (The Burglar); and a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (Street of No Return). Long a cult favorite, Goodis now takes his place alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in the pantheon of classic American crime writers. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tyler Edward Stovall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 21.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1996
Category: African Americans
Language: en
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Download PDF Paris Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Paris Noir fills a grievous gap in the absorbing chronicle of American expatriates who chose to live in Paris in the twentieth century. For alongside Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein and Henry Miller was an avant-garde and tightly knit community of black American writers, artists, musicians, and political exiles who found in Paris the creative and personal freedom denied them back home." "A welcoming refuge for writers, Paris embraced Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. A score of all-important jazz musicians lit up the city at night, from Miles Davis to Charlie Parker to Sidney Bechet, while Josephine Baker dazzled audiences with the Danse Sauvage in the Revue Negre. Leaving an equally important mark were the painters and artists who found inspiration in the Paris scene: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lois Mailou Jones, Ed Clark, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Barbara Chase-Riboud." "Paris Noir brings this vibrant world to life, beginning with the doughboys who returned to Paris after World War I and moving on through the Jazz Age, the Depression, the years of the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, and the postwar boom."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Miklitsch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052498
Size: 63.92 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2021-01-11
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF I Died A Million Times eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre of films focused on crime syndicates, crooked cops, and capers. With the Senate's organized crime hearings and the brighter-than-bright myth of the American Dream as a backdrop, Miklitsch examines the style and history, and the production and cultural politics, of classic pictures from The Big Heat and The Asphalt Jungle to lesser-known gems like 711 Ocean Drive and post-Fifties movies like Ocean’s Eleven. Miklitsch pays particular attention to trademark leitmotifs including the individual versus the collective, the family as a locus of dissension and rapport, the real-world roots of the heist picture, and the syndicate as an octopus with its tentacles deep into law enforcement, corporate America, and government. If the memes of gangster noir remain prototypically dark, the look of the films becomes lighter and flatter, reflecting the influence of television and the realization that, under the cover of respectability, crime had moved from the underworld into the mainstream of contemporary everyday life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231506147
Size: 20.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2002-06-20
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
View: 2003
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Download PDF Black White Noir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural detritus blowing across the postwar landscape, finding in pulp a political theory that helps explain America's fascination with lurid spectacles of crime. We are accustomed to thinking of noir as a film form popularized in movies like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and, more recently, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. But it is also, Paula Rabinowitz argues, an avenue of social and political expression. This book offers an unparalleled historical and theoretical overview of the noir shadows cast when the media's glare is focused on the unseen and the unseemly in our culture. Through far-ranging discussions of the Starr Report, movies such as Double Indemnity and The Big Heat, and figures as various as Barbara Stanwyck, Kenneth Fearing, and Richard Wright, Rabinowitz finds in film noir the representation of modern America's attempt to submerge and mask its violent history of racial and class anatagonisms. Black & White & Noir also explores the theory and practice of stilettos, the ways in which girls in the 1950s viewed film noir as a secret language about their mothers' pasts, the extraordinary tone-setting photographs of Esther Bubley, and the smutty aspect of social workers' case studies, among other unexpected twists and provocative turns.

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