The Noir Style
A Mystery, Movies, Noir book. My BFF gave me this as a gift (I don't remember what year...sorry....) and it's AWESOME! Highly...
In the world of film noir, style becomes paramount," wrote Paul Schrader in his seminal "Notes on Film Noir." In "The Noir Style," experts Alain Silver and James Ursini analyze the look of noir-its elements and their impact on this most American of film movements-revisiting the territory they made their own in their classic "Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style." "The Noir Style" traces the development of noir to its origins and documents its borrowings from other visual arts with chapters covering the recurring motifs that define the genre. Both an indispensable reference guide and an...
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- Pages: 248 pages
- ISBN: 9781585674855 / 1585674850
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This is a coffee table sized paperback but fans of the style of film noir (lighting, costumes, set design, the whole mise-en-scene megillah) will keep is close at hand. A terrific book, the best of its kind I have seen--by no means an exhaustive but still not insignificant list--with gorgeously reproduced images. The text commentary... My BFF gave me this as a gift (I don't remember what year...sorry....) and it's AWESOME! Highly recommend this to anyone intersted in the film genre and it's gorgeous film The Noir Style by Alain Silver and James Ursini is a seminal book for anyone interested in creating atmospheric photographic lighting and should be part of any photographer's library, most especially those who still shoot with black & white film.The book consists of publicity stills, largely taken from the golden age of Hollywood film...
