Detour

ISBN-13: 9781844572397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 105 str.

Noah Isenberg

Opis

Noah Isenberg's study ofthe filmnoir classic Detour draws on archival sources, unpublished letters and interviews to provide an illuminating account ofits production history, its critical reception, its afterlife (including various remakes) and the different ways in which the film has been understood since its release. "

Recenzje

Noah Isenberg does a remarkable job of sifting through decades-old interviews and archive material to bring you the low-down Empire

Spis treści

1. An Unlikely Story; 2. Pulp Fictions; 3. Movies on the Cheap; 4. In Search of Meaning; 5. And the Sky was Grey; 6.'Detour'Redux; Postscript: Alone in the Dark

O autorze

Noah Isenberg is Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, New York, USA, where he also directs the Screen Studies program. He is the author of 'We'll Always Have 'Casablanca': The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie' (2017), which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review, and was selected as a Summer Book of 2017 by the Financial Times and a Best Film Book of 2017 by the Scottish Herald. His other books include: Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins (2014), which the New York Times hailed as "a page turner of a biography" and the Huffington Post selected among its Best Film Books of 2014; Detour (BFI Film Classics, 2008), and, as editor, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era (2009), which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.