SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. General
Andrew, J. Dudley. The Major Film Theories: An Introduction. London: Oxford U. Press, 1976.
Balázs, Béla. Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art. New York: Dover, 1970.
Bazin, Andre. What Is Cinema? Vol. I & II. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1967, 1971.
Bordwell, David, Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. New York: Columbia U. Press, 1985.
Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.
Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1989.
Cook, Pam & Mieke Bernink. The Cinema Book. 2nd Edition. London: BFI, 1999.
Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1973.
Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton U. Press, 1947.
Monaco, James. How To Read a Film. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1981.
Nichols, Bill. ed. Movies and Methods. Vol. I. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1976.
Perkins, V. F. Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies. New York: Da Capo, 1993.
Sarris, Andrew. The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968. New York: Dutton, 1968.
Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1969.
II. Film noir
Cameron, Ian. Ed. The Book of Film Noir. New York: Continuum, 1992.
Conrad, Mark T. Ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir. Lexington: U. of Kentucky Press, 2007.
_____. The Philosophy of Neo-Noir. Lexington: U. of Kentucky Press, 2009.
Copjec, Joan. Shades of Noir. London: Verso, 1993.
Crowther, Bruce. Film Noir: Reflections in a Dark Mirror. London: Virgin, 1988.
Doane, Mary Ann. The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s. Bloomington, Indiana U. Press, 1987.
Gorman, Ed, Lee Server, and Martin H. Greenberg. The Big Book of Noir. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Hillier, Jim and Alastair Phillips. 100 Film Noirs. London: BFI, 2009.
Hirsch, Foster. Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir. New York: Da Capo, 2008.
_____. Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir. New York: Limelight, 1999.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Ed. Women in Film Noir, London: BFI, 1978.
Naremore, James. More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2008.
Polan, Dana. Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940 – 1950. New York: Columbia U. Press, 1986.
Silver, Alain and Elizabeth Ward. Eds. Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. Third Edition. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1992.
_____ and James Ursini. Eds. Film Noir Reader. New York: Limelight, 1996.
_____ and James Ursini. Eds. Film Noir Reader 2. New York: Limelight, 1999.
_____ and James Ursini and Robert Porfirio. Eds. Film Noir Reader 3: Interviews with Filmmakers of the Classic Noir Period. New York: Limelight, 2001.
_____ and James Ursini. Eds. Film Noir Reader 4. New York: Limelight, 2005.
Telotte, J. P. Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir. Urbana: Illinois U. Press, 1989.
FILMOGRAPHY
Classic Noir
Act of Violence – Fred Zinnemann (1949)
Angel Face – Otto Preminger (1953)
The Asphalt Jungle – John Huston (1950)
Behind Locked Doors – Budd Boetticher (1948)
Beyond the Forest – King Vidor (1949)
The Big Clock – John Farrow (1948)
The Big Combo – Joseph H. Lewis (1955)
The Big Heat – Fritz Lang (1953)
The Big Knife – Robert Aldrich (1955)
The Big Sleep – Howard Hawks (1946)
The Big Steal – Don Siegel (1949)
Black Angel – Roy William Neill (1946)
Brighton Rock – John Boulting (1947)
The Brothers Rico – Phil Karlson (1957)
The Blue Gardenia – Fritz Lang (1953)
Border Incident – Anthony Mann (1949)
Born to Kill – Robert Wise (1947)
The Brothers Rico – Phil Karlson (1957)
Brute Force – Jules Dassin (1947)
Cape Fear – J. Lee Thompson (1962)
Cat People – Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton, producer (1942)
Caught – Max Ophuls (1949)
Clash by Night – Fritz Lang (1952)
Crime Wave – Andre DeToth (1954)
The Crimson Kimono – Sam Fuller (1959)
Criss Cross – Robert Siodmak (1949)
Cry of the City – Robert Siodmak (1948)
D.O.A. – Rudolph Maté (1950)
The Damned Don't Cry – Vincent Sherman (1950)
The Dark Corner – Henry Hathaway (1946)
The Dark Mirror – Robert Siodmak (1946)
Dark Passage – Delmar Daves (1947)
Dead Reckoning – John Cromwell (1947)
Desperate –Anthony Mann (1947)
Detour – Edgar Ulmer (1945)
Double Indemnity – Billy Wilder (1944)
The Enforcer – Bretaigne Windust (1951)
Fallen Angel – Otto Preminger (1946)
The File on Thelma Jordan – Robert Siodmak (1950)
Five Against the House – Phil Karlson (1955)
Force of Evil – Abraham Polonsky (1948)
Gilda – Charles Vidor (1946)
Green for Danger – Sydney Gilliat (1946)
Gun Crazy – Joseph H. Lewis (1950)
The Harder They Fall – Mark Robson (1956)
Hell Drivers – Cy Endfield (1957)
Hell’s Island – Phil Karlson (1955)
High Sierra – Raoul Walsh (1941)
His Kind of Woman – John Farrow (1951)
In a Lonely Place – Nicholas Ray (1950)
It Always Rains on Sunday – Robert Hamer (1947)
I Wake Up Screaming – H. Bruce Humberstone (1941)
Kansas City Confidential – Phil Karlson (1952)
Key Largo – John Huston (1948)
The Killer Is Loose – Budd Boetticher (1956)
The Killers – Robert Siodmak (1946)
The Killing – Stanley Kubrick (1956)
Kiss Me Deadly – Robert Aldrich (1955)
Kiss of Death – Henry Hathaway (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai – Orson Welles (1948)
Lady in the Lake – Robert Montgomery (1947)
Laura – Otto Preminger (1944)
The Leopard Man – Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton, producer (1943)
Leave Her to Heaven – John M. Stahl (1945)
The Lineup – Don Siegel (1958)
The Maltese Falcon – John Huston (1941)
Mine Own Executioner – Anthony Kimmins (1947)
Ministry of Fear – Fritz Lang (1945)
Murder by Contract – Irving Lerner (1958)
Murder, My Sweet – Edward Dmytryk (1944)
My Name is Julia Ross – Joseph H. Lewis (1945)
Mystery Street – John Sturges (1950)
The Naked City – Jules Dassin (1948)
The Narrow Margin – Richard Fleischer (1952)
Night and the City – Jules Dassin (1950)
Nightfall – Jacques Tourneur (1957)
Nightmare Alley – Edmund Goulding (1947)
99 River Street – Phil Karlson (1953)
Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock (1946)
Odds Against Tomorrow – Robert Wise (1959)
On Dangerous Ground – Nicholas Ray (1952)
Out of the Past – Jacques Tourneur (1947)
Phantom Lady - Robert Siodmak (1944)
Pickup on South Street – Samuel Fuller (1953)
The Pitfall – André DeToth (1948)
The Postman Always Rings Twice – Tay Garnett (1946)
The Racket – John Cromwell (1951)
Railroaded – Anthony Mann (1947)
Raw Deal – Anthony Mann (1948)
The Reckless Moment – Max Ophuls (1949)
Rogue Cop – Roy Rowland (1954)
Scandal Sheet – Phil Karlson (1952)
Scarlet Street – Fritz Lang (1945)
Scene of the Crime – Roy Rowland (1949)
The Set-Up – Robert Wise (1949)
The Seventh Victim – Mark Robson/Val Lewton, producer (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt – Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
The Shanghai Gesture – Josef von Sternberg (1941)
Side Street – Anthony Mann (1950)
The Small Back Room – Michael Powell (1949)
So Dark the Night – Joseph H. Lewis (1946)
Somewhere in the Night – Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1946)
Sorry, Wrong Number – Anatole Litvak (1948)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry – Robert Siodmak (1945)
The Stranger – Orson Welles (1946)
Stranger on the Third Floor – Boris Ingster (1940)
Strangers on a Train – Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder (1950)
Suspicion – Alfred Hitchcock (1941)
Sweet Smell of Success – Alexander MacKendrick (1957)
T-Men – Anthony Mann (1948)
They Live By Night – Nicholas Ray (1948)
They Made Me a Fugitive – Cavalcanti (1947)
The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)
This Gun for Hire – Frank Tuttle (1942)
Tiger Bay – J. Lee Thompson (1959)
Tight Spot – Phil Karlson (1955)
Touch of Evil – Orson Welles (1958)
Underworld U.S.A. – Samuel Fuller (1961)
Union Station – Rudolph Maté (1950)
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
Where Danger Lives – John Farrow (1950)
While the City Sleeps – Fritz Lang (1956)
Whirlpool – Otto Preminger (1949)
White Heat – Raoul Walsh (1949)
The Window – Ted Tzetlaff (1949)
World for Ransom – Robert Aldrich (1954)
The Wrong Man – Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
Yield to the Night – J. Lee Thompson (1956)
French noir in the 1950s and 1960s
À bout de souffle – Jean-Luc Godard (1959)
Alphaville – Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Ascenseur pour l’échafaud – Louis Malle (1957)
Bande à part – Jean-Luc Godard (1964)
Les biches – Claude Chabrol (1968)
Bob le flambeur – Jean-Pierre Melville (1955)
Le Boucher – Claude Chabrol (1969)
Casque d’or – Jacques Becker (1952)
Le circle rouge – Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
Classe tous risques – Claude Sautet (1960)
Les Diaboliques – Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
Le Doulos – Jean-Pierre Melville (1962)
Le deuxieme souffle – Jean-Pierre Melville (1966)
Made in U.S.A. – Jean-Luc Godard (1967)
La Marièe ètait en noir – Francois Truffaut (1967)
La peau douce – Francois Truffaut (1964)
Pierrot le fou – Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Pickpocket – Robert Bresson (1959)
Plein Soleil – René Clement (1960)
Que la bête meure – Claude Chabrol (1969)
Le Samourai – Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
La sirene du Mississippi – Francois Truffaut (1969)
Tirez sur le pianiste – Francois Truffaut (1960)
Touchez pas au grisbi - Jacques Becker (1954)
Vivre sa vie – Jean-Luc Godard (1962)
Neo-Noir
After Dark, My Sweet – James Foley (1990)
The American Friend – Wim Wenders (1977)
Atlantic City – Louis Malle (1981)
At Close Range – James Foley (1986)
Badlands – Terrence Malick (1973)
Bad Lieutenant – Abel Ferrara (1992)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – Werner Herzog (2009)
Barton Fink – Joel & Ethan Coen (1991)
Basic Instinct – Paul Verhoeven (1992)
Basic Instinct 2 – Michael Caton-Jones (2006)
Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982)
Blood and Wine – Bob Rafelson (1996)
Blow Out – Brian DePalma (1981)
Blood Simple – Joe & Ethan Coen (1986)
Blue Steel – Kathryn Bigelow (1990)
Blue Velvet – David Lynch (1986)
Body Heat – Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
The Border – Tony Richardson (1982)
The Boston Strangler – Richard Fleischer (1968)
Bound – Larry and Andy Wachowski (1996)
Brick – Rian Johnson (2006)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – Sam Peckinpah (1974)
Cassandra’s Dream – Woody Allen (2007)
Charley Varrick – Don Siegel (1973)
Chinatown – Roman Polanski (1974)
City of Industry – John Irvin (1997)
Collateral – Michael Mann (2004)
The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Cop Land – James Mangold (1997)
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen (1989)
Croupier – Mike Hodges (1998)
Dark Blue – Ron Shelton (2002)
The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan (2008)
Dead of Winter – Arthur Penn (1987)
Deep Cover – Bill Duke (1992)
Deep End – Jerzy Skolimowski (1971)
Dirty Harry – Don Siegel (1971)
Dressed to Kill – Brian De Palma (1980)
Drugstore Cowboy – Gus Van Sant (1989)
Eastern Promises – David Cronenberg (2007)
Experiment in Terror – Blake Edwards (1962)
Fargo – Joel & Ethan Coen (1996)
Femme Fatale – Brian De Palma (1992)
52 Pick-up – John Frankenheimer (1986)
Frantic – Roman Polanski (1988)
French Connection II – John Frankenheimer (1975)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle – Peter Yates (1973)
Funeral in Berlin – Guy Hamilton (1970)
Gran Torino – Eastwood (2008)
Grosse Pointe Blank – George Armitage (1997)
The Grifters – Stephen Frears (1990)
Heat – Michael Mann (1995)
Hickey & Boggs – Robert Culp (1972)
The Hot Spot – Dennis Hopper (1990)
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead – Mike Hodges (2003)
In Bruges – Martin McDonagh (2008)
Internal Affairs – Mike Figgis (1990)
Jackie Brown – Quentin Tarantino (1997)
Jennifer Eight – Bruce Robinson (1992)
Johnny Handsome – Walter Hill (1989)
Kill Me Again – John Dahl (1989)
King of Comedy – Martin Scorsese (1982)
King of New York – Abel Ferrara (1990)
Klute – Alan J. Pakula (1971)
L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson (1997)
The Last Seduction – John Dahl (1994)
The Limey – Steven Soderberg (1999)
The Long Goodbye – Robert Altman (1973)
Lost Highway – David Lynch (1997)
Madigan – Don Siegel (1968)
The Manchurian Candidate – John Frankenheimer (1962)
Mercury Rising – Harold Becker (2003)
Miami Blues – George Armitage (1990)
Mickey One – Arthur Penn (1965)
Mike’s Murder – James Bridges (1984)
Mortal Thoughts – Alan Rudolph (1991)
Ms. 45 – Abel Ferrara (1981)
Mulholland Drive – David Lynch (2001)
The Naked Kiss – Samuel Fuller (1964)
The Net – Irwin Winkler (1995)
Night Moves – Arthur Penn (1975)
No Country for Old Men – Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
Obsession – Brian De Palma (1976)
Peeping Tom – Michael Powell (1960)
Point Blank – John Boorman (1967)
Poison Ivy – Katt Shea (1992)
Red Rock West – John Dahl (1992)
Reindeer Games – John Frankenheimer (2000)
Reservoir Dogs – Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Rush – Lily Fini Zanuck (1991)
Sea of Love – Harold Becker (1989)
Shock Corridor – Samuel Fuller (1963)
The Silence of the Lambs – Jonathan Demme (1991)
Someone to Watch Over Me – Ridley Scott (1987)
Something Wild – Jonathan Demme (1986)
The Stepfather – Joseph Ruben (1987)
Street of No Return – Samuel Fuller (1989)
Stripped to Kill – Katt Shea (1987)
Stripped to Kill 2 – Katt Shea (1988)
Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976)
Thieves Like Us – Robert Altman (1974)
To Die For – Gus Van Sant (1995)
To Live and Die in L.A. – William Friedkin (1985)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – David Lynch (1992)
We Own the Night – James Gray (200)
White of the Eye – Donald Cammell (1988)
Who’ll Stop the Rain – Karel Reiz (1978)
Wild Things – John McNaughton (1998)
Witness – Peter Weir (1985)
Year of the Dragon – Michael Cimino (1985)
TV Series
Peter Gunn (1958 – 61)
The Twilight Zone (1959 – 64)
Johnny Staccato (1959 – 60)
The Fugitive (1963 – 67)
Twin Peaks (1990-91)
