Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how......

Whether it\"s Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul......

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Annie was the type of girl that never listen to her parents. Her love life became scary and; unexceptable. Trusting friends she learn was not so good....

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact....

Over the course of the twentieth century, travel experienced an unprecedented boom. As ocean liners broke speed records, aerodynamic trains roared down tracks, and stylish boat-plane clippers evolved into jumbo jets, travel transformed from a......

Silver and Ursini trace the development of noir to its origins and documents its borrowings from other visual arts, with chapters covering each of the recurring motifs that define the genre. Stills and background are provided for classics like A TOUCH OF EVIL, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, and IN A LONELY PLACE....

Beginning with a general overview of film noir and covering its most important themes chapter by chapter (lovers plan murder, corrupt police, doomed love, psychological noir, etc.), this copiously illustrated handbook provides instant and in-depth access to the film noir genre for amateurs and aficionados alike....

Now illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and film stills; completely revised and up-to-date; and Praised in American Cinematographer as A???the definitive study of this traditional movie genre,A??? Alain SilverA???s The Samurai Film is the ultimate resource for one of world cinemaA???...

A thorough, up-to-date resource on the full spectrum of childhood learning disorders In this Second Edition of Disorders of Learning in Childhood, Drs....

Book DescriptionGenerously includes film stills and essays on crime films, The Postman Always Rings Twice, \"Hitchcock\'s Noire Landscape,\" \"Samuel Fuller\'s Tabloid Cinema,\" \"Son of Noir,\" \"Noir Science,\" \"Girl Power: Female Centered Neo-Noir,\" and \"Abstract Expressionism and Film Noir.\"...

Book DescriptionThe Third and most recent edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, \"The Vampire at the Millennium,\" was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker\'s novel Dracula....

Book DescriptionDeparting from the approach of its Film Noir Reader predecessors, this third volume in the series assembles a collection of interviews with film noir directors and a cinematographer, few of whom are alive today....

Book DescriptionThe earlier Film Noir Readers, which now boast a combined sale of well over 30,000 copies, have all quite deliberately conveyed a sweeping overview of the classic period, demonstrating how broad and inclusive noir movies are. Film Noir Reader 4 moves in a different direction....

Book DescriptionThis bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time. The collection is assembled by the editors of the Third Edition of Film Noir: An Enclyclopedic Reference to the American Style, now regarded as the standard work on the subject....