Communication Studies
Research Guides
Film Noir
VIDEOS/DVDs
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1993.5 .U6 A846 1994
Five VHS cassettes, 600 min. " Covers the history and development of the motion picture industry, including its adaptation to social trends and technological developments such as television."
- Tape 1: The Hollywood style; The star
- Tape 2: Romantic comedy; Film noir
- Tape 3: The western; The combat film
- Tape 4: The studio system; Film in the television age
- Tape 5: The film school generation; The edge of Hollywood
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1997 .D4768 1991
First released as a motion picture in 1945.
1 VHS cassette (68 min.)
Screen play and original story by Martin Goldsmith
Producer: Leon Fromkess
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer.
Director of photography: Benjamin H. Kline
Film editor: George McGuire
Music: Erdody.
Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage.
"Summary: Hitching his way towards California, an innocent man is drawn into a web of murder and deceit."
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .F54 S87 1991
Originally released as a motion picture in 1946.
1 VHS cassette (115 min.)
Screenplay by Robert Rossen, based on a story by Jack Patrick
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Director: Lewis Milestone
Photography: Victor Milner
Editor: Archie Marshek
Music: Miklos Rozsa
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson, Darryl Hickman, Ann Doran, Blake Edwards.
“Summary: An unscrupulous woman takes up with her old boyfriend, without bothering to keep the affair from her husband.”
BOOKS
In Lonely Places : Film Noir Beyond the City
Smith, Imogen Sara. (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011)Available in the ebrary database (Off-campus authentication required)
More than night : film noir in its contexts
Naremore, James. (University of California Press, 2008)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .F54 N37 2008
Black & white & noir : America's pulp modernism
Rabinowitz, Paula. (Columbia University Press, 2002)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .F54 R33 2002
Noir Anxiety
Oliver, Kelly; Trigo, Benigno. (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)Available online only in ebrary.
Dark city dames : the wicked women of film noir
Muller, Eddie. (Regan Books, 2001)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1998.2 .M854 2001
America noir : underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era
Cochran, David. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000)McNichols Campus Library
PS 374 .P63 C63 1999
Also available online through through nnetLibrary
Creatures of darkness : Raymond Chandler, detective fiction, and film noir
Phillips, Gene D.. (University Press of Kentucky, 2000)McNichols Campus Library
PS 3505 .H3224 Z836 2000
Dangerous dames : women and representation in the Weimar street film and film noir
Wager, Jans B.. (Ohio University Press, 1999)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .F44 W35 1999
More than night: Film noir in its contexts
Naremore, James. (Berkeley University of California Press, 1998)ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .W6 W66 1998
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"A perfect double down to the last detail": photography and the identity of film noir
Pelizzon, V. Penelope; West, Nancy. Post Script. (22(3), Summer 2003, pages: 34-47)ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
Available in the InfoTrac OneFile database. For off-campus access, sign in with your library card barcode at http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/dpa/udm/
Class, crime, and film noir: labor, the fugitive outsider, and the anti-authoritarian tradition
Broe, Dennis. Social Justice. (30(1), Spring 2003, pages 22-42)McNichols Campus Library
ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
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Transformations of the urban landscape in Spanish film noir
Konstantarakos, Myrto. Spaces in European Cinema, Intellect Books, 2000, pages 124-137..McNichols Campus Library
ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
Hardboiled imagination: from detective fiction to film noir
Dickstein, Morris. Culturefront. (8(3/4), Fall 1999, p. 4)ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
Available in the HumanitiesAbs database. For off-campus access, sign in with your library card barcode at http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/dpa/udm/
Genre theory in the context of the noir and post-noir film
Orr, Christopher. Film Criticism. (22(1), Fall 1997, pages 21-38)ELECTRONIC ACCESS ONLY
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Fatal capers: strategy and enigma in film noir.
Telotte, J. P.. Journal of Popular Film and Television. (23(4), Winter 1996, pages: 163-171)PN1993 .J66
Available in print at the McNichols campus library, or online through the InfoTrac OneFile database. For off-campus access, sign in with your library card barcode at http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/dpa/udm/
McNichols Campus Library
KF 4772 .F744 1995
EBOOKS
Dames in the driver's seat : rereading film noir
Wager, Jans B.. (University of Texas Press, 2005)Available online only in ebrary.
L.A. Noir : The City as Character
Silver, Alain; Ursini, James. (Santa Monica Press, 2005)Available online only in ebrary.
Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them : Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
Irwin, John T.. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)Available online only in ebrary.
Street Was Mine : White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
Abbott, Megan E.. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)Available online only in ebrary.
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