Cornell Woolrich and Transmedia Noir

Cornell Woolrich and Transmedia Noir
Author: Rob King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02-20
Genre: Film noir
ISBN: 9781399517652

Cornell Woolrich and Transmedia Noir uses the oeuvre of famed mystery writer Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968) as an optic into the media networks of American pulp fiction and the "weird tales" (in the parlance of the time) that were a seedbed of noir. Woolrich's fiction was widely published in thriller magazines like Argosy and Black Mask, and his work was a frequent source for radio anthologies, television series, and film adaptations. Tracking the transmedia circulation of Woolrich's stories and their various adaptations allows a rethinking of film noir as part of a broader "noir mediascape" during this era. The book is the first scholarly collection of essays on Woolrich It includes two recently discovered Woolrich short stories, one of which has never been published. It features contributions from scholars working on a range of different media, as well as a short piece on the rediscovered shorts by Woolrich's biographer, Francis M. Nevins. Rob King is a professor of film and media studies at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He is the author of Hokum! The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture (2017) and the award-winning The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture (2009). He is currently working on a study of adult filmmaker Radley Metzger and is coediting, with Charlie Keil, the Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema.

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir

Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir
Author: Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2015-01-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786482818

Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen; Michael Cristofer's Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales. This book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich's novels and short stories; examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich's techniques and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich's plots, themes and characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich's noir classics.

A Companion to Film Noir

A Companion to Film Noir
Author: Andre Spicer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1118523717

An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels. Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross-media influences Features chapters exploring the wider ‘noir mediascape’ of television, graphic novels and radio Reflects the historical and geographical reach of film noir, from the 1920s to the present and in a variety of national cinemas Includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema
Author: Charlie Keil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2024
Genre: Art
ISBN: 019049669X

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

Black Alibi

Black Alibi
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781950369171

New York Blues

New York Blues
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788807819841

Mr. Glamour

Mr. Glamour
Author: Richard Godwin
Publisher: Black Jackal Books Limited
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780956711335

* Something dark is preying on the glitz of the glamour set. DCI Jackson Flare and Inspector Mandy Steele investigate a series of bizarre killings targeting the wealthy and glamorous.

Culture Conglomerates

Culture Conglomerates
Author: William M. Kunz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780742540668

Explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Useful as a supplement for a variety of media courses, this text includes synopses of key media regulations and policies, discussion questions, a glossary, and entertaining boxed features.