Darkness To Light Translation: la lumière et l'obscurité...

Noirish City....the world of rain soaked streets, dark alleys and dead ends...The Home of Tough Guys, Femme-Fatale, and a cup of (Coffee) murder, gats,...The Maltese Falcon, Val Lewton, Black Angel, Sunset Blvd., dark, light, shadows, Cry of the City, Victor Mature, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Conte, Orson Welles, The Third Man,Touch of Evil, dark figures, Act of Violence, The Big Combo, Out of the Past, Paranoia, dark alleys, rain slick streets, Chiaroscuro......Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sidney Green-street, Elisha Cook and that... "Bird." _____________________________________________________________ To read mini reviews of films that are considered...noirs...You can now follow Tony D'Ambra....on Twitter at... FilmnoirReviews _____________________________________________________________ "The City was dark with something more than night." - Raymond Chandler [Pre Code and Noir dwells here, in the shadows. Beginning next year, movie studios plan to begin phasing out renting 35mm prints of vintage movies to theaters, forcing revival theaters to show them in digital format only. This is not how these classic films were meant to be seen, at the push of a sterile button, in a non film format, and many classic films will also fall by the wayside and become lost films - there is an online petition to hopefully stop this by following the link to Fight For 35MM Films...] Thanks to Julia Marchese, New Beverly Cinema and Dark City.

Tuesday, May 24

Here Goes The Art Work [Book Cover Art] For Those "Two Cool Cats" Writers Clute and Edwards' book "The Maltese Film Noir and Potential Criticism...

TOUCH OF EVIL..." [EDITOR'S NOTE: FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT CLUTE AND EDWARDS ' BOOK JUST FOLLOW THE LINK TO AMAZON.COM...Here:"The Maltese Film Noir and Potential Criticism...and Touch Of Evil...Thank-You, Very Much!

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergence between fans and scholars with regard to goals and methods for appreciating and studying noir. The Maltese Touch of Evil aims to bridge that gap. Based on a series of popular podcasts, this unique and deeply informed investigation of film noir sets out to examine the case of noir more closely, and in the process reconfigures the critical evidence on noir that has been presented to date.

The Maltese Touch of Evil reproduces and re-sequences nearly 150 noir screen grabs from 31 great films, laying them out with the authors' informed and entertaining insights into the significance of each shot. The result is a de facto meta-film noir, a celebration of the genre that shows how these films are themselves "constrained" texts whose carefully calculated visual forms simultaneously generate narrative and critical commentary on that narrative. You will never look at film noir the same way again.
About the Author
SHANNON CLUTE is an independent scholar who works for Turner Classic Movies in Atlanta. RICHARD L. EDWARDS is an assistant professor of media arts and sciences at Indiana University's School of Informatics in Indianapolis.
Product Details

* Paperback: 296 pages
* Publisher: Dartmouth (December 13, 2011)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1611680476
* ISBN-13: 978-1611680478
Posted by Ténèbres à la lumière... at Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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8 comments:

  1. Hi! Readers...
    This book seems very interesting I most definitely, will be adding this book to my Christmas list.

    Thanks, Clute and Edwards...For writing this book!
    DeeDee ;-D

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  2. Absolutely Dee Dee!! This is another title that noir fans should scoop up. I'll be taking down the title myself, and will soon acquire a copy! Thanks so much for featuring this!!!

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  3. Hi! Sam Juliano...
    After reading their synopsis I would hope that the noir novice, and those who haven't discovered this style yet...pick-up their book too!
    [Come December I may even offer this book in a book give-away contest.]

    Once again, Sam Juliano, Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment too!

    DeeDee ;-D

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  5. Hello! Ashirwaad...
    Oh! yes, I plan to check-out the book too by two very well-informed and very good writers,
    Clute and Edwards.
    Thanks, for stopping by and leaving a comment too!
    DeeDee ;-D

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  6. Hello! Sam Juliano, Ashirwaad and readers...

    Tony D'Ambra, from over there at Filmsnoir.net takes a look at all the books that I covered...[{Translation: meaning the book(s) cover artwork,] but he goes beyond the books that will soon be released to cover some film noir that he recently, watched too Check-it out here... Digest Bad Girls Behind Locked Doors

    Thanks,
    DeeDee ;-D

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  7. thanks DeeDee - always interesting information you come up with..may have to check this out..sounds like a good possibility to get an impression and an overview..have a lovely weekend

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  8. Hi! Claudia...Thanks, for stopping by for the first-time too and leaving a comment and a compliment.
    [ed. note:I have to second your notion about the book too!]
    deedee ;-D

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