FILM NOIR RESOURCES

Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms, and Persons, Michael L. Stephens (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995).

LOCATION

Main Reference:

PN 1995.9.F54 S74 1995

A scene from Jean-Pierre Melville's neo-noir, Le Samouraï.

 

Film Noir: an Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, edited by Alan Silver and Elizabeth Ward; co-editors, Carl Macek and Robert Porfirio (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1992).

LOCATION

Main Reference:

PN 1995.9.F54F55 1992

 

The BFI Companion to Crime, edited by Phil Hardy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.D4B23 1997

Surveys and classifies the main types and examples of crime fiction in the cinema..."A history of the genre...consisting of a psychological and social dimension."

Women in Film Noir, edited by Ann E. Kaplan (London: BFI, 1998

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.W6W66 1998

A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties, Larry Langman and Daniel Finn (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9G3L36 1995X

This and the following title describe "how previous decades influenced the present crime films both in theme and content, and how these dramas generally reflect our culture, our laws, and our shifting attitudes toward crime and criminals."

A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties, Larry Langman and Daniel Finn (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.D4L35 1995X

A Girl and a Gun: the Complete Guide to Film Noir on Video, David N. Meyer (New York: Avon, 1998).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.F54M48 1998

Film Noir, edited by Alan Silver and Elizabeth Ward (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1992).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1993.5.U6F5 1992

"An encyclopedic reference to the American film style." Includes selected bibliography and index.

Film Noir Reader, edited by Alan Silver and James Ursini (New York: Limelight, 2000).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.F54F57 2000

Film Noir Reader 2, edited by Alan Silver and James Ursini (New York: Limelight, 1999).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9 F54F58 1999

Film Noir, a Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms, and Persons, Michael L. Stephens (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995).

LOCATION

Main Library: PN 1995.9.F54S74 1995