Journey through film noir's shadowy, stylized streets.
If you're fascinated by the gritty underbelly of classic cinema, "Dark City" is like a private tour through the dimly-lit alleyways of film noir. Eddie Muller guides you with a narrative as sharp and engaging as the genre itself, filled with compelling images and stories that'll make you feel as if you're part of that seductive, dangerous world. A true delight for cinephiles craving that old Hollywood mystique.
- Macavity Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical (1999)
- Anthony Award Nominee for Best Critical Work (1999)
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ISBN: 9780312180768
Authors:
Eddie Muller
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date of Publication: 1998-05-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.27
(rated by 665 readers)
Description
Welcome to Dark City, urban landscape of the imagination. A place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, who led readers on a guided tour of the seamier side of motion pictures in Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema, now takes us on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, when art, politics, scandal, style--and brilliant craftsmanship--produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology. Dark City is a 1999 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical / Biographical Work.
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Journey through film noir's shadowy, stylized streets.
If you're fascinated by the gritty underbelly of classic cinema, "Dark City" is like a private tour through the dimly-lit alleyways of film noir. Eddie Muller guides you with a narrative as sharp and engaging as the genre itself, filled with compelling images and stories that'll make you feel as if you're part of that seductive, dangerous world. A true delight for cinephiles craving that old Hollywood mystique.
- Macavity Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical (1999)
- Anthony Award Nominee for Best Critical Work (1999)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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