Description: Welcome to the world of private eyes, gangsters, and femmes fatales! This volume explores the dark allure and evolution of film noir and its contemporary counterpart, neo-noir--from its origins in silent cinema to groundbreaking classics including Double Indemnity and Vertigo, and on to cult favorites like Pulp Fiction and Drive.
Brief description:
Jürgen Müller holds the chair of Early Modern and Modern Art History at the Technical University of Dresden. He studied Art History at the universities of Bochum, Münster, Pisa, Paris, and Amsterdam, and has worked as an art critic and curator of numerous exhibitions. He is also the editor of TASCHEN's movies by decade series.
Review Quotes: "Noir gets the hard-core TASCHEN treatment."-- "Total Film"