City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872864122 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100445910 02 087286412X 03 9780872864122 15 9780872864122 BC 1 A01 Borde, Raymond Raymond Borde Raymond Borde (b. 1920), founder of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, has written extensively on film history. 2 A01 Chaumeton, Etienne Etienne Chaumeton Etienne Chaumeton was the film critic of the Toulouse newspaper <em>La Dépêche</em> until his recent death. 3 B06 Hammond, Paul Paul Hammond Paul Hammond is a writer, editor, and translator living in Barcelona. He edited and translated <em>The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema</em>, and he is the author of <em>Constellations of Miró, Breton</em>. 01 eng 200 01 <P>When it appeared in France in 1955, <em>A Panorama of American Film Noir </em>was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. This clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is "a 'benchmark' for all later work on the topic" (James Naremore). <em>A Panorama of American Film Noir </em>addresses the essential amorality of its subject from a decidedly Surrealist angle, focusing on noir's dreamlike, unwonted, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel atmosphere, and setting it in the social context of mid-century America.</P><P><strong>Raymond Borde </strong>(b. 1920), founder of the Cinematheque de Toulouse, has written extensively on film history.</P><P><strong>Etienne Chaumeton </strong>was the film critic of the Toulouse newspaper <em>La Depeche </em>until his recent death.</P> 02 When it appeared in France in 1955, A Panorama of American Film Noir was the first book ever on the genre. Now this classic is at last available in English translation. This clairvoyant study of Hollywood film noir is "a 'benchmark' for all later... 08 "Incredibly, this is the first English translation of the very influential 1955 French book that initially identified, described and assessed the Hollywood movies that we now term film noir... a seminal work of cinema description and analysis and therefore an essential purchase for most libraries." From the Starred Review in Library Journal 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100445910/images/87286100445910L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100445910/images/87286100445910S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100445910 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20021101 01 8.5 in 02 5.25 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20021101 01 02 18.95 USD