 | Film Noir (Pocket Essentials) by Paul Duncan
Buy used from: $0.77 inexpensive and handy; includes annotated filmography and a selected bibliography
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 | A Girl and a Gun: The Complete Guide to Film Noir on Video by David N. Meyer
Buy used from: $3.38 comprehensive guide for video rentals
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 | The Big Book of Noir
Buy used from: $11.99 anthology for the generalist
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 | Genre and Hollywood (Sightlines (London, England).) by Steve Neale
Buy new: $32.24 / Used from: $22.27 genre: definitions and concept; chapter on film noir; genre theory
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 | Gun Crazy (BFI Film Classics) by Jim Kitses
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $6.63 critical analysis of 1949 'B' film noir classic, 'Deadly is the Female.'
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 | Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir by Foster Hirsch
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.01 examines 40 years of the genre--includes filmography, bibliography, and index
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 | America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era by David Cochran
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $4.48 reference book provides context for the genre
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 | Mean Streets and Raging Bulls by Richard Martin
Buy new: $26.66 / Used from: $12.09 film neo-noir reference
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 | Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction by Woody Haut
Buy used from: $5.86 sequel to 'Pulp Culture'; discusses books and films neo-noirs (ca. 1960s on)
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 | Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $5.99 Gifford offers opinionated, impressionistic, and inclusionary view of the crime, noir, and neo-noir genres
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 | Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (New Americanists) by Robert J.Corber
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $14.70 provocative thesis
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 | Dark City: The Film Noir by Spencer Selby
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $10.85 profiles 25 films noirs; useful appendixes (off-genre films; chronology; grosses; filmographies; bibliography/works cited; indexes)
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 | Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War by Woody Haut
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.92 Haut's discussion of the hard-boiled fiction genre adds context to film noir studies.
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 | French Film Noir by Robin Buss
Buy new: $14.92 / Used from: $5.40 directors: Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Corneau, Costa-Gavras, and Bresson; filmography of 101 French films noirs (1942-93)
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 | Film Noir: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to Movies, Terms, and Persons by Michael L. Stephens
Buy used from: $12.55 library reference; comprehensive
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 | Femmes Fatales by Mary Ann Doane
Buy new: $28.18 / Used from: $16.01 provocative text of feminist psychoanalytic film criticism; see essay on 'Gilda,' (Charles Vidor, 1946).
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 | Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir by Gene D. Phillips
Buy used from: $8.71 a recent addition to the lit crit on Raymond Chandler, with references to films noirs and neo-noirs that are based on his books; mixed reviews
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 | Femme Noir: The Bad Girls of Film by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry
Buy used from: $67.45 reprint or reissue of reference book that profiles 49 actors, (with some 'non-standard' inclusions--see T of C); 'bad girls' subtitle seems inopportune.
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 | Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir
Buy used from: $7.99 history and lit crit text that could be a good reference for film students who wish to compare and contrast settings of films noirs in Florida and California
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 | The BFI Companion to Crime
Buy new: $26.41 / Used from: $0.99 gives historical perspective on evolution of film noir
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| British Film Noir: Shadows Are My Friends (Cinema & Society) by Robert Murphy
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 | In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity by Frank Krutnik
Buy new: $32.16 / Used from: $3.00 controversial book that re-examines gender stereotyping in the genre; Peter Matthews calls Krutnik's thesis a 'portrait of the noir hero as a schlemiel.'
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 | Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) by Jon Tuska
Buy new: $126.95 / Used from: $44.85 useful reference book for students of the film noir genre
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 | Fallen Angels: Six Noir Tales Told for Television by Raymond Chandler
Buy used from: $0.01 six original short stories from a great writer of hard-boiled and noir genres; includes screen adaptations of each story, with black-and-white photographs
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| Autopsy: An Element of Realism in Film Noir by Carl Richardson
Buy new: $53.00 / Used from: $9.98 unique book discusses three films noirs: 'The Maltese Falcon' (1941), 'The Naked City' (1948), and 'Touch of Evil' (1958); intertextual study on 'locations' in films noirs.
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