Hard-Boiled Mysteries : General References 1

REFERENCE BOOKS

THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR

This anthology is gathering essays, articles and lists all related to the Noir genre.

It explores all kind of media that carries Noir, such as cinema, comics, and of course literature... Most of the articles are reprints from previous publication, but it is their gathering under one cover that makes this book an upmost source of references. This is a real must for any aficionado of the Noir genre!

To convey the appeal of this anthology, we have listed here some of the subjects of 'The Big Book of Noir' :

Fritz Lang's final interview
The Making of The Naked City
Leigh Brackett on writing Big Sleep and Long Goodbye
Charlton Heston on Orson Welles and Touch of Evil
Interview with A.I. Bezzerides (Film: Kiss Me Deadly)
Interview with Daniel Mainwaring (aka Geoffrey Homes)
Stephen Hunter on Neo-Noir
William F. Nolan on Chandler in Hollywood
Bill Pronzini on Gil Brewer
Stephen King on Jim Thompson
Walt Sheldon on his friend Fredric Brown
Interview with Charles Willeford
Interview with J. D. MacDonald Chester Himes
Highsmith's Ripley
British Noir
Histories of Gold Medal Books, Lion Books, and Serie Noire [France]
Comic Book Noir by Ron Goulart
Radio Noir
The Last Days of Cornell Woolrich

['Serie Noire History' is by E.Borgers]

'The big Book of Noir' is published by Carroll & Graf (1998)
Editors: Ed Gorman, Lee Server, Martin H. Greenberg

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