L.A. Noir The City as Character,9781595800060

L.A. Noir The City as Character

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ISBN13: 9781595800060
ISBN10: 1595800069
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-28
Publisher(s): Santa Monica Press
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Summary

Film buffs explore the world of noir cinema in a Los Angeles context with this guide to noir films and their California settings. This book illustrates how these films use L.A.'s diverse cityscape and architecture to convey a unique vision of urban corruption and existential fatalism, in both the gritty downtown area and the outlying affluent communities like Malibu and Beverly Hills. Dozens of noir and neo-noir films are featured including classics such asDouble Indemnity,Kiss Me Deadly,Sunset Boulevard, andTouch of Eviland more recent films such asMulholland DriveandPulp Fiction. More than 150 photographsmany never before publishedfurther illustrate the rich and constantly changing backdrop of these movies.

Author Biography

Alain Silver is the coeditor of Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style and the author of The Samurai Film. He has written numerous articles for the Los Angeles Times, DGA Magazine, Film Comment, and Photon. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. James Ursini has contributed to various publications including Cinema, Femme Fatales, Mediascene, and Photon. Together, they are the coauthors of 11 books, among them the Film Noir Reader series and The Noir Style. They both live in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9(2)
Introduction 11(5)
Hollywood: The Dream Is Born
16(40)
The Westside and the Coast: Where the Dream Runs Out of Steam
56(32)
Downtown Los Angeles: The Dream vs. the Nightmare
88(50)
The `Burbs: The Dream Re-Created?
138(18)
Bibliography 156(2)
Filmography 158(14)
Photograph Notes and Locations 172

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