Description
Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered.
The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to demonstrate that the roots of noir were sown far and wide, long before the lasting and mysterious genre flowered in America during the war years.
Author: Kevin Grant
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 12/07/2022
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.77w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781476687483
ISBN10: 147668748X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
About the Author
Kevin Grant is a film historian and periodical journalist living in London.