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By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry

Movie noir offers gritty tales and responsible viewing excitement. approximately ninety male actors of vintage movie noir titles of the Nineteen Forties and Fifties are featured during this quantity. The researcher will locate the anticipated (James Cagey, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum), the fewer popular (Morris Carnovsky, Douglas Fowley), and actors who go beyond the style (Kirk Douglas, Alan Ladd). the writer additionally wrote Femme Noir: undesirable women of movie (McFarland, 1988). For the recent quantity, she selected actors who've performed major roles in different movie noir releases, and considered 240 movies with a purpose to describe the plots and characters accurately.

Most of the amount treats those "bad boys" extensive, in A to Z entries starting from 5 to 12 pages in size. own existence tales are intermingled with discussions of movies. whereas the emphasis is on noir, a few movies outdoors the style are mentioned in the event that they are seminal to the actor (e.g., the Andy Hardy sequence for Mickey Rooney). A filmography and bibliography finish each one access. Black-and-white pictures aid the reader establish person actors, a few of whom, comparable to Jay Flippen and Gene Lockhart, may be remembered extra for his or her "mugs" than for his or her monikers. an extra 25 actors are given one-page remedies within the first appendix. one other appendix supplies noteworthy strains, prepared by way of extensive subject similar to "Regarding Dames," "Sizing Up the opposite Guy," and "Penetrating Put-downs" (e.g., Richard Widmark's line "I wouldn't provide the dermis off a grape," from Kiss of Death). Following the overall bibliography, an index lists titles, names, and awards.

Depth instead of breadth is the main to this relaxing reference paintings, on the way to be welcomed via the movie fan in addition to good because the researcher and is suggested for higher movie collections.

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3 In this sense,one might point to a variety of cinematic children: Gates of Heaven, Perfumed Nightmare, Burden of Dreams, and even perhapsApocalypse Now. Works cited Foucault, Michel (1977) Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press. Greenberg, Alan, Herbert Achternbusch and Werner Herzog (1976) Heart of Glass, Munich, Skellig. Rentschler, Eric (1984) West German Film in the Course of Time, Bedford Hills NY, Redgrave. This page intentionally left blank: II PROMOTION AS SELF-PORTRAIT 2 Remnants of a bowdlerized auteur theory (Herzog and Fitzcarraldo) 2 w.

O'Toole, 1979, 41) According to anotherinterview, Herzog in fact met God at the age of 3; it was Christmas and God wore a brown suit and worked for the Electric Company. Herzog not only has an acute, God-given gift of prophecy, according to his own statements;as a filmmaker he can communicatewith others, blessingthem with his wisdom: "I know that I have the ability to articulateimagesthat sit deeply inside us, that I can make them visible" (Hoberman, 1985, 61). " Yet, as Herzog tells us elsewhere,he never dreams.

A second documentaryon and starring Herzog, Burden of Dreams, has also allowed the director plenty of room to re-createhis own image. In this respecthe resemblesonly his late colleague,Rainer Werner Fassbinder,and to a lesserextent, Herbert Achternbusch,Werner Schroeterand Vlado Krist!. In contrast, such filmmakers as Wim Wenders, Alexander Kluge or Edgar Reitz are known to us almost exclusively through their films and theoretical texts, through the process of aesthetic reception. Indeed, to Herzog's advantage,critical reception of New German Cinema has tended to favor those directors who have brought their auteurial and biographicalpersonasinto close proximity, remnantsof a bowdlerizedauteurtheory.

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