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TV Noir DA R K D R A M A O N T H E S M A L L S C R E E N
S E LLING POINTS ●● The first reference work about noir on television by a noted curator and media historian
● ● BY A L L E N G LOV E R
The pioneering, incisive, lavishly illustrated survey of noir on television—the first of its kind
●● Author appearances and lectures on noir and television ●● Chronicles the evolution of the genre beginning with live television and the anthology series of the 1940s to classics such as The Fugitive and Dragnet
S PECIFICATIONS 289 black-and-white and 147 color images 256 pages WIDTH: 8" • 203mm HEIGHT: 10" • 254mm Hardcover with jacket PUB MONTH: SEPTEMBER ENTERTAINMENT • TELEVISION • POP CULTURE ISBN ISBN: 978-1-59020-167-1 978-1-59020-167-1 US $40.00 CAN $50.00 UK 5 4£30.00 000 9 781590 201671
ISBN 978-1-68335-757-5
N
oir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like
Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cinéastes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian
Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC’s adaptation of Woolrich’s The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the ’40s and ’50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neonoirs of the ’60s and ’70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir. Allen Glover is a film and television historian. As a curator at the Paley Center for Media, he created exhibitions on such cultural icons as David Bowie, Rod Serling, Robert Altman, and Buster Keaton. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website at agkinowerken.com.
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