Roots of Film Noir: Precursors from the Silent Era to the 1940s

by Kevin Grant

Individual reviews of 90+ films created and released before 1941 are included here in the first title-by-title reference guide to the forerunners of film noir. Silent Hitchcock thrillers and German expressionist masterpieces, French poetic realist dramas and forgotten Hollywood B-movies, pseudo-Freudian gangster films and costume melodramas are among the works covered.

The collection spans subgenres and cultures of filmmaking, aiming to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147668748X
• ISBN13: 9781476687483
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up