American noir film : from the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl
(2025)
By:
Booker, M. Keith
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
791.43655/BOOKER,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025
DESCRIPTION
vi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781538194096, 1538194090 :, 1538194090, 9781538194096
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"American Noir Film explores how the popular genre and its tropes evolved from the early classics to neo-noir and beyond while maintaining the distinct features audiences love. Movies discussed range from Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard to Chinatown and Devil in a Blue Dress and recent films Under the Silver Lake and Promising Young Woman"--