Full name: Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City

Author: Nicholas Christopher Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Movies, Noir, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781593760977 1593760973

In this cultural examination of American film noir, poet and novelist Nicholas Christopher contrasts the nightmare world of the genre with the sunny unreality of American popular culture, presenting a fresh view of its meaning for our time. Similar books: Film noir by Foster Hirsch Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode The Noir Style by Alain Silver Film Noir Pocket Essentials by Paul Duncan Dark City by Eddie Muller Film Noir by Alain Silver Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode San Francisco Noir by Nathaniel Rich Godard on Godard by Jean-Luc Godard A Killer Life by Christine Vachon The Art of Noir by Eddie Muller Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert On Directing Film by David Mamet Story by Robert McKee Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt Screening the Mafia by George S. Larke-Walsh