Alain Silver
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"The third edition of The Vampire Film featuring a new chapter, “The Vampire at the Millennium ” was released in October 1996 to coincide with the centennial of Stoker's novel Dracula. More vampire films have been produced since the First Edition of The Vampire Film appeared in 1974 than in the entire history of motion pictures prior to that year. The first completely revised and updated edition was published in 1993. The third edition insures...
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"From actual murder to magazine fiction to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is as complex as anything that hit the screen during film noir's classic period. A 1927 tabloid sensation "crime of the century" inspired journalist and would-be crime-fiction writer James M. Cain to pen a novella. Hollywood quickly bid on the film rights, but throughout the 1930s a strict code of censorship made certain that no studio could green-light a murder melodrama...
8) The Mogul
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English
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Devito plays Vic De Salvo, the owner of a New Jersey trucking firm who yearns for a television career. The "born to fail" series becomes a surprise hit, and soon De Salvo is the hottest TV producer in the industry.
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Fox film noir volume 6
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English
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Stanton Carlisle is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena, then tosses her aside. In time, he becomes "The Great Stanton, " star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all this notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him.--Container
10) House of bamboo
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Fox film noir volume 4
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English
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Sandy Dawson has assembled a platoon of ex-Army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his beautiful mistress. But Spanier's behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion high above the ancient city of Tokyo.--Container
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A new anthology from Silver and Ursini, longtime expert commentators of the noir movement. This book focuses on the visual style of the classic period through essays that consider individual films, directors, stylistic elements, or subgroups of movies in the film noir style. There are updated versions of key articles and original essays from other experts in the field.
12) Film noir
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English
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"Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to corrupt cops and doomed affairs, editors Paul Duncan and Jürgen Müller examine noir's key themes and their most representative movies from 1940 to 1960."--Jacket flap.
13) Seven samurai
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Criterion collection volume 2
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日本語
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Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.