<div><div> <div> Noir in the spotlight </div> Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femme fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant.... If your heart rate just increased a bit, you'll covet this book—the first film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir. Beginning with silent, German, and French films that were early influences on the genre, through to seminal works such as <I>Double Indemnity</I>, <I>The Postman Always Rings Twice</I>, and <I>Vertigo</I>, you'll make your way to the present day via <I>Chinatown</I>, <I>Pulp Fiction,</I> <I>Heat</I>, <I>Memento</I>, and the recent cult favorite <I>Drive</I>. Entries include posters, tons of rare stills, cast/crew details, quotes from the films and from critics, and analyses of the films. Film director, film noir scholar, and <I>Taxi Driver</I> screenwriter Paul Schrader provides the introduction to this feast of noir worship. Populated by the genre's most revered directors like Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles, Polanski, Mann, and Scorsese, the book also pays homage to its iconic faces such as those of Mitchum, Bogart, Hayworth, Bergman, Grant, Bacall, Crawford, Nicholson, Pacino, and so many more.</div></div>