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(and some Noir Music)
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Film Noir topic at Wikipedia
International Noir Fiction blog {reviews}
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PulpCon summer convention [1972-2008]
PulpFest convention [July 2016 = #8] in Columbus, Ohio {Philip José} FarmerCon convention alongside PulpFest [July 2016 = #11] |
http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Night-Film-Noir-American/dp/1593760973/
http://www.amazon.com/100-Film-Noirs-Screen-Guides/dp/1844572161/
James Naremore "More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts" [] /0520254023/
Books Recently Added
 | "America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition In The Age of Consumer Culture" [2013] by Erik Dussere Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [10/2013] for $15.94 Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/2013] for $26.96 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2013] for $89.10 author's faculty homepage at American University | |
 | "TV Noir: The 20th Century" [2010] by Ray Starman Examines TV series from 1949 to 1999 including "Dragnet", "Racket Squad", "The Lineup", "Peter Gunn", "The Untouchables", "The Fugitive", "Felony Squad", "N.Y.P.D. Blue", "Homicide: Life On The Street", "The Invaders", "X-Files", and "The Prisoner" Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2010] for $7.55 CreateSpace 8x5 pb [8/2010] for $7.95 | |
 | "Film Noir, The Directors" [2012] Edited by Alain Silver & James Ursini Limelight 9¼x7½ pb [3/2012] for $18.24 | |
 | "Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film" [2009] by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [12/2009] for $75.00 | |
 | "Film Noir and The Cinema of Paranoia" [2009] by Wheeler Winston Dixon Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2009] for $21.33 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2009] for $68.00 |
 | "Panorama du Film Noir Américain, 1941-1953" [1955 classic] by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton This is the book that coined the term 'film noir'. Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] imported/scarce Flammarion French-language mass pb [1/93] for €10,93 from Amazon France |
 | "The Detective In Film: A Pictorial History of The Screen Sleuth From 1903 To The Present" [1972] by William K. Everson
Lyle Stuart pb [6/74] out of print/used Citadel Press 10¾x8¾ hardcover [2/73] out of print/many used |
 | "The Detective In Hollywood: The Movie Careers of The Great Fictional Private Eyes & Their Creators" [1978] by Jon Tuska
Doubleday 10½x7¼ hardcover [3/78] out of print/used |
 | "The Dark Side of The Screen: Film Noir" [1981] by Foster Hirsch DaCapo Press 11x8½ pb [3/2001] for $14.70 DaCapo Press 11x8½ pb [5/88] out of print/used Oak Tree hardcover [5/81] out of print/used |
 | "Women In Film Noir" [1984] Edited by E. Ann Kaplan British Film Institute 9.3x6 pb [4/99] for $19.95 British Film Institute hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
 | "Dark Cinema: American Film Noir In Cultural Perspective" [1984] by Jon Tuska Greenwood Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/84] for $126.95 |
 | "Film Noir: An Encyclopedia Reference To The American Style" [1984] Edited by Alain Silver & Elizabeth Ward Overlook Press 11x8¼ pb [3/93] for $0.00 Random House hardcover [10/84] out of print/used |
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"Dark City: The Film Noir" [1984] by Spencer Selby McFarland & Co. pb [11/97] for $20.00 McFarland & Co. hardcover [11/84] out of print/used |
 | "Voices In The Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir" [1989] by J.P. Telotte Univ IL Press 9x6 pb [4/89] for $20.95 |
 | "Hardboiled In Hollywood: Five Black Mask Writers & The Movies" [1991] by David Wilt Bowling Green Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [6/91] out of print/used Bowling Green Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/91] for $21.94 |
 | "The Little Black & White Book of Film Noir: Quotations From Films of The 40s & 50s" [1993] Edited by Peg Thompson & Saeko Usukawa
Arsenal Pulp Press 4¼x3 mini-book [8/93] for $4.95 |
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"Shades of Noir: A Reader" [1993] Edited by Joan Copjec
Verso Books 8x7¼ pb [11/93] for $20.00 Verso Books hardcover [12/96] for $60.00 |
 | "French Film Noir" [1994] by Robin Buss
Marion Boyars 8½x5¼ pb [4/2001] for $16.95 Marion Boyars 8¾x5½ hardcover [7/94] for $35.00 |
 | "The American Roman Noir: Hammett, Cain, & Chandler" [1995] by William Marling Univ GA Press 8.6x5.6 pb [10/98] for $12.60 Univ GA Press hardcover [2/95] out of print/used |
 | "Film Noir Reader" [1996] Edited by Alain Silver & James Ursini Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [7/96] for $14.00 |
 | "Hard-Boiled: Great Lines From Classic Noir Films" [1996] by Peggy Thompson & Saeko Usukawa Chronicle Books 8¾x8 pb [3/96] out of print/used |
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"Crime Scenes: Movie Poster Art of The Film Noir" [1997] by Lawrence Bassoff self-publd 14x11 pb [9/97] out of print/used |
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"Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir" [1998] by Eddie Muller
St. Martin 8x10 pb [5/98] for $16.07 author website |
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"A Girl and A Gun: The Complete Guide To Film Noir On Video" [1998] by David N. Meyer Avon 8¼x5¾ pb [5/98] out of print/used |
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"Femme Noir: The Bad Girls of Film" [1998] by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry McFarland & Co. hardcover [7/98] for $75.00 |
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"The Big Book of Noir" [1998] Edited by Ed Gorman, Lee Server & Martin H. Greenberg Carroll & Graf 10x7¼ pb [10/98] out of print/used |
 | "More Than Night: Film Noir In Its Contexts" [1998] by James Naremore Univ CA Press 11¼x5¾ pb [10/98] for $17.95 Univ CA Press 9.4x6¼ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used |
 | "Detours & Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir" [1999] by Foster Hirsch Limelight 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $15.60 |
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"Film Noir Reader 2" [1999] Edited by Alain Silver & James Ursini Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [9/99] for $14.00 |
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"The Noir Style" [1999] by Alain Silver & James Ursini Overlook Press 11¾x11 hardcover [12/99] for $50.00 |
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"America Noir: Underground Writers & Filmmakers of The Postwar Era" [2000] by David Cochran Smithsonian Inst. Press 9x6½ hardcover [5/2000] for $22.36 |
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"Film Noir" [2000] by Paul Duncan brief but very thorough listings Pocket Essentials pb [7/2000] for $6.95 |
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"Death On The Cheap: The Lost 'B' Movies" [2000] by Arthur Lyons DaCapo Press 8½x6 pb [10/2000] for $14.00 |
 | "101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense" [2000] by Otto Penzler S&S Trade 8¼x5¼ pb [10/2000] out of print/used |
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"Out of The Past: Adventures In Film Noir" [2001] by Barry Gifford
Univ of MS Press 8½x5 pb [1/2001] for $12.80 revised/expanded from "The Devil Thumbs A Ride" [1988] Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/99] out of print/used |
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"Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir" [2001] by Eddie Muller Regan Books hardcover [5/2001] for $29.96 author website |
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"Noir, Now and Then: Film Noir Originals & Remakes, 1944-1999" [2001] by Ronald Schwartz Greenwood Press hardcover [6/2001] for $118.95 |
 | "Film Noir Reader 3: Interviews With Filmmakers of The Classic Noir Period" [2002] Edited by Robert Porfirio, Alain Silver & James Ursini
Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [2/2002] for $15.75 |
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"Street With No Name: A History of The Classic American Film Noir" [2002] by Andrew Dickos Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2002] for $20.37 |
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"Film Noir" [2002] by Andrew Spicer
Longman 9x6 pb [7/2002] for $11.21 |
 | "The Art of Noir: The Posters & Graphics From The Classic Era of Film Noir" [2002] by Eddie Muller
Overlook Press 14¼x10½! hardcover [10/2002] for $35.00 author website |
 | "The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity In Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir" [2002] by Megan E. Abbott
Palgrave Macmillan 8¾x6 pb [11/2002] for $100.00 |
 | "A Panorama of American Film Noir, 1941-1953" [2002] by Raymond Borde & Etienne Chaumeton City Lights Books 8¾x5¼ pb [12/2002] for $11.87 |
 | "Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of The Classic Era, 1940-1959" [2003] by Michael F. Keaney McFarland & Co. 10¼x7¼ hardcover [4/2003] for $75.00 |
 | "Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust & Murder Hollywood Style" [2003] by William Hare McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [8/2003] for $39.95 |
 | "Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of The Great Crime Films" [2003] by Max Décharné Oldcastle pb [7/2005] for $11.56 No Exit Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $19.80 |
 | "Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective In Popular Culture" [2004] by Linda Mizejewski Routledge 9x6 pb [5/2004] for $13.57 Routledge 9½x6 hardcover [5/2004] for $85.00 |
 | "Film Noir" [2004] by Alain Silver & James Ursini Taschen pb [6/2004] for $19.99 |
 | "Le Film Noir: L'Áge d'Or du Film Criminel Américain" [2004] by Patrick Brion Subjects include Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Ray & Orson Welles Editions de la Martinière French-language hardcover [9/2004] for €42,75 at Amazon France Patrick Brion's weblog (in French) |
 | "Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" [2004] by Ray Hagen & Laura Wagner McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [9/2004] for $36.50 |
 | "Film Noir Reader 4: The Crucial Films & Themes" [2004] by Alain Silver Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [11/2004] for $16.06 |
 | "Neo-Noir: The New Film Noir Style From Psycho To Collateral" [2005] by Ronald Schwartz Scarecrow Press 8¾x5¾ pb [8/2005] for $31.95 |
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"Film Noir" [2005] by Eddie Robson
Virgin Books 9x6 pb [9/2005] for $18.96 |
 | "It's A Bitter Little World: The Smartest Toughest Nastiest Quotes From Film Noir" [2005] Edited by Charles Pappas
F&W Publns 6¼x5½ pb [10/2005] for $10.39 |
 | "Blackout: World War II & The Origins of Film Noir" [2005] by Sheri Chinen Biesen Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [11/2005] for $20.00 World War II section of the War Film Festival at Magic Lantern |
 | "The Philosophy of Film Noir" [2005] Edited by Mark T. Conard Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [8/2007] for $24.95 Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2005] for $28.60 |
 | "Cracking The Hard-boiled Detective: A Critical History From The 1920s To The Present" [2006] by Lewis D. Moore
McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [2/2006] for $35.00 |
 | "The Philosophy of Neo-Noir" [2007] Edited by Mark T. Conard Univ Press of KY 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $31.30 |
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"European Film Noir" [2007] Edited by Andrew Spicer Manchester Univ Press 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $24.95 Manchester Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $74.95 |
 | "The Philosophy of TV Noir" [2008] Edited by Steven M. Sanders & Aeon J. Skoble Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2008] for $35.00 |
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"Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir" [2008] by Paul Meehan McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [4/2008] for $55.00 |
 | "Into The Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950" [2016] by Mark A. Vieira Kindle Edition from Running Press/Hachette [5/2016] for $21.99 {sic} Running Press 10x8¼ hardcover [5/2016] for $25.88 |
Film Noir Music / CDs
Steve Wynn's 'guitar noir' rock: browse music
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"Fallen Angel" [2006] by Bob Sneider & Joe Locke {aka "The Film Noir Project"} Sons of Sound audio CD [2/2006] for $13.99 official website |
 | "Film Noir: 16 Classic Tracks From The Dark Side of The Movies" [2000]
Empire audio CD [6/2000] for $14.98 |
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"Crime Jazz: Music In The Second Degree" [1997] television & film soundtrack anthology Rhino audio CD [11/97] out of prodn/used |
 | "Film Noir" [1997] by Carly Simon, co-produced by Jimmy Webb Arista audio CD [9/97] for $14.99 |
 | "Murder Is My Beat: Classic Film Noir Themes & Scenes" [1997]
18 music cuts plus snippets of snappy dialog Rhino audio CD [6/97] for $17.98 |
 | "White Heat: Film Noir" [1994] by Jazz At The Movies Band DiscV import audio CD [5/94] out of stock/used |
"City of Angels" Broadway musical [1989-92]
 | Book by Larry Gelbart, music by Cy Coleman & lyrics by David Zippel
Sony CD of Broadway cast [2/90] for $14.99 Cast includes Rene Auberjonois, Gregg Edelman, Dee Hoty, Randy Graff & James Naughton; won 1990 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Leading Actor (JN), Featured Actress (RG), Best Book (Gelbart) & Best Original Score RCA CD of London cast [10/93] out of prodn/used Cast includes Susannah Fellows, Martin Smith, Roger Allam & Maurice Clarke Applause illustrated pb playscript [11/91] for $10.17 Applause illustrated hardcover playscript [11/91] for $19.95 play credits {879 performances} at Internet Broadway Database |
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