Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir

By (author): "Eddie Muller"
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
ISBN0312180764
ISBN139780312180768
AsinDark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
CharactersBarbara Stanwyck
Original titleDark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
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.