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  • A Matter of Vengeance

    A James Benoit Heatley Mystery

    by Kevin Sivils, K.C. Sivils ...
    Series series A James Benoit Heatley Mystery
    Life had taught Heat many valuable lessons.Things like have a code to live by. The simpler the better.Simple rules a man could live by.Rules like whoever killed a man's partner had to pay for that sin.Rules like never take the rap for something you didn't do.And most important of all, never let somebody else do your dirty work for you.Introducing P.I. James Benoit "Heat" Heatley in A Matter of ... Read more

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  • The Hard-Boiled Era: The Architects of Crime Noir

    From Order to Chaos: A History of Crime Noir

    by K.C. Sivils ...
    Series series From Order to Chaos: A History of Crime Noir
    The Hard-Boiled Era: The Architects of Crime NoirVolume II of the From Order to Chaos: A History of Crime Noir SeriesCrime noir did not emerge from a vacuum. It was forged by a generation of writers who rejected the comforting certainties of traditional detective fiction and replaced them with a darker vision of the modern world.In The Hard-Boiled Era, bestselling author and crime noir historian K ... Read more

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  • The Faces of Noir

    From Order to Chaos: A History of Crime Noir, #3

    by Kevin Sivils, K.C. Sivils ...
    Series Book 3 - From Order to Chaos: A History of Crime Noir
    From the shadowed alleys of classic detective fiction to the neon-lit despair of modern neo-noir, noir has become one of the most enduring and influential storytelling traditions in modern culture.In The Faces of Noir: A Concise History of Noir in Literature and Film, USA Today bestselling author K.C. Sivils explores the evolution of noir across literature, film, television, radio, and popular ... Read more

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  • A Night On The Town

    An Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller

    by K.C. Sivils ...
    Series series An Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller
    Trouble they say, loves company.On this particular night, trouble stands just under two meters tall and is visiting the popular Neon District.A beautiful clone, Sarah normally doesn't go looking for the company of trouble. But on this night, the long legged detective plans to take advantage of the badge she carries. Trouble won't like what happens when Sarah finds it while out for A Night On The ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Friends in Low Places

    Hardboiled Noir From The Future

    by K.C. Sivils ...
    Narrated by Todd Menesses ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Capital City Characters

    Unabridged

    2 hours 21 min

    For Fans of The Thomas Sullivan Thriller Series - Crime Noir from the Future - Episode I of Capital City Characters - Friends in Low PlacesJoe Maynard runs a legit place, good food, good service, and at night, good music. It's true, if you want to place a friendly side wager, Joe will take your bet. He's a community leader, a player in the local politics of Capital City on Beta Prime.But nobody ... Read more

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    by Mark T. Conard ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    An essay collection examining the philosophical elements of select films in noir cinema, as well as the genre's legacy in film and culture.A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective down on his luck becomes involved with a gang of criminals in pursuit of a priceless artifact. The stories are at ... Read more

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  • Film Noir

    by William Luhr ...
    Series Book 22 - New Approaches to Film Genre
    Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements.Brings together a range of perspectives on a topic that has been much discussed but remains notoriously ill-definedTraces the historical development of the genre, usefully exploring the relations ... Read more

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  • More than Night

    Film Noir in Its Contexts

    by James Naremore ...
    "Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more complex and paradoxical than we realize. It treats noir as a term in criticism, as an expression of artistic ... Read more

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  • Mad Men

    A Cultural History

    by M. Keith Booker, Bob Batchelor ...
    Series series The Cultural History of Television
    "A comprehensive examination of the ways in which [the series] uses American cultural memory . . . to shape . . . characters' developments and the narrative arc." — Journal of American CultureFrom the opening credits that feature a silhouette falling among skyscrapers, Mad Men transcended its role as a series about the Madison Avenue advertising industry to become a modern classic. For seven ... Read more

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  • Mean Streets and Raging Bulls

    The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema

    by Richard Martin ...
    Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties and fifties America. Mean Streets and Raging Bulls explores how, since its apparent demise in the ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Film Noir

    by Helen Hanson, Andre Spicer ...
    An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels.Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross ... Read more

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  • Film Genre Reader IV

    Edited by Barry Keith Grant ...
    From reviews of the third edition:“Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology’s consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview.” ... Read more

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