The Dark Side of the Screen

Film Noir

Foster Hirsch

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Da Capo
25 November 2008

Film, TV & Radio; Film & movie: styles & genres

A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir- the most original genre of American cinema- with a new afterword by the author

Since

The Dark Side of the Screen

first appeared over two decades ago, it has served as the essential take on what has become one of today's most pervasive screen influences and enduringly popular genres. Covering over one hundred outstanding films and offering more than two hundred carefully chosen stills, it is by far the most thorough and entertaining study available of noir themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, and directors. This landmark work covers noir in full, from the iconic performances of Burt Lancaster, Joan Crawford, and Humphrey Bogart to the camera angles, lighting effects, and story lines that characterize the work of directors Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles.

With a new afterword about the lasting legacy of

noir

as well as recently rediscovered films deserving of their own screenings alongside the classics,

The Dark Side of the Screen

reestablishes itself as both an unsurpassed resource and a captivating must-read for any fan of noir.

By: Foster Hirsch
Imprint: Da Capo
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780306817724
ISBN 10: 0306817721
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 25 November 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown

Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, Foster Hirsch is the author of fifteen books on film and theatre, including Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir, Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen; and Acting Hollywood Style. He lives in New York.

Reviews for The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

Martin Jackson, Cineaste Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise...[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure. Philip French, The Observer (London) There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch's The Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) and his Sunset Boulevard (1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context. Skyscraper, Spring 2009 An important examination of what film noir is...The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch's academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach.