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This book shares the same format with the first film noir reader: essays are arranged in 3 parts.
Nevins on films adapted from the works of cornell woolrich and an essay by robert g.
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The work of many excellent and tireless crime photographers adorned the pages of daily newspapers in the 1920s-1950s.
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The essays in this book are often repetitive and non-progressional in subject matter.
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The softcover version of the book has stills that are more brown and white than black and white.
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For my money, i am a bigger fan of hirsch's the dark side of the screen.
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This all is not to say that a majority of the essays in the reader are not helpful.
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An item for anyone with a library about film, a passion for film noir or someone just wanting to find out what all this talk about film nor is about in some depth.
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I'm including reviews of both film noir reader and film noir reader 2 in the same review until amazon gets the two books unlinked.
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Some of the essays are illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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Film noir reader has three parts: part i is seminal essays, which include 8 essays written 1955-1979.