Sentences with phrase «noir fiction»

The latter included a signed first edition of Raymond Chandler's 1939 noir fiction The Big Sleep and Prince's republication of J.D. Salinger's cult - novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Robin Storey presents Three Reasons To Love Noir posted at Storey - Lines, saying, «Indie author Robin Storey reveals the three main reasons she loves reading and writing noir fiction.»

Not Looking For: Noir fiction; previously published or self - published works; new books in a series that was previously published at another house or self - published.

When she gets a head of steam she is about the best thing going in retro noir fiction.

- International Noir Fiction «Full of style and cynical humor... Has all the punch - your - lights - out action of a movie thriller.»

7 members Latest Activity: May 24, 2016 For writers of crime and noir fiction, especially short story writers.

The most famous bird in noir fiction receives first - class treatment in this multicast performance, which comes complete with sound effects and is reminiscent of old - time radio dramas.

I for one am quite eager to see where Eliot's story ends up leading and if you're a fan of Noir fiction, or have a taste for the gritty, Blues and Bullets will definitely scratch that itch for you.

Not exact matches

On July 14, Kent Westmoreland, head mixologist at Windsor Court's Cocktail Bar, will partner with celebrity guest bartender and host of The Proper Pour Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons to serve special cocktails inspired by classic noir films and fiction.

I am inclined to say that The Twenty - Year Death began when I took two university courses: Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, even though I wrote it many years later.

Somber piano and unexpected saxophone solos feel like this is not science fiction, but a film noir.

a visually striking, but emotionally flat mash - up of romantic drama, film noir, and science fiction that sounds much more interesting than it turns out to be

The Oscar - winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)-- a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown.

Though the movie is the most explicitly «noir» of all the Coens» pictures, its look more closely resembles that of science fiction movies of the 1950s — a fact that makes its peculiar UFO subplot a touch less incongruous.

Okay, so director Rian Johnson's teenage gumshoe doesn't exactly have a professional license, but Brick is so indebted to the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett that excluding it would be a noir travesty.

Social oppression and philosophical uncertainty define the noir atmosphere of Spielberg's least overtly religious science - fiction film.

Hirsch told the audience that film noir can absolutely be in color, describing «Niagara» both as a «minor masterpiece» and a «pulp - fiction paperback come to life.»

The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.

Netflix's newest science - fiction offering, Altered Carbon, is an ambitious deep - dive into R - rated cyberpunk noir.

At least, the historical value excuses most of the shortcomings, this hailing from the end of film noir's height, revealing much on public tastes of the time and even touching upon the Cold War paranoia for which the decade and its parabolic science fiction are recalled.

Then came his chamber - drama Bug, a paranoid science - fiction noir with a whole lotta crazy showed delightful submission to the lead performances, Michael Shannon and Ashley Judd that its ricky one - room conceit worked some real magic.

Reservoir Dogs, True Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never seen a Tarantino film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences: film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.

Offering new insights into Ridley Scott's second science fiction mash - up masterpiece (here Sci - Fi and L.A. Noir) which followed immediately after Alien, is rather difficult.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

A unique blend of film noir, horror, and science fiction, Alex Proyas» underrated film about a man accused of murder in a mysterious city where the sun never seems to shine is beloved by those who've seen it, which isn't as many people as it should be.

The familiar «noir,» (defined as a genre of crime film or fiction characterized by cynicism, fatalism and moral ambiguity) is made to feel new here - and it does - thanks to its anchor lead actor, Krisztián Kolovratnik.

Todays update involves the casting of Bruce Willis (hopefully it will be the Pulp Fiction, Fast Food Nation, 12 Monkeys Willis and not the Cop Out, Fifth Element, Mercury Rising Willis) and confirms Joseph Gordon - Levitt (who proved a winning combination with Johnson's sensibility in chic - noir Brick).

A line is easily drawn through its hardboiled antecedents, from the pulp fiction of Chandler, Cain and Hammett, through the great film noir.

This subtle blend of fact and fiction is part and parcel of Larrain and screenwriter Guillermo Calderón's playful approach to the material, which shifts in and out of various genres, including chase thriller, film noir, road movie and even western.

After sixteen years of Jones trying to get Mute made, the end result is a packed - to - the - brim science fiction noir that feels like it's been waiting to be unleashed for a long time.

It's hard to explain but Peluchonneau looks and sounds like he emerged from a hard - boiled noir piece of fiction, complete with overheated narration and rear - projection for driving backgrounds.

While it's true that Wise explored a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, noir, westerns, musicals and war dramas, his best films frequently share a gloomy nihilistic worldview and he possessed the extraordinary ability to elicit career - defining performances from many of the actors he worked with.

Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.

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It's a return to noir with a science fiction backdrop, a not so distant future that just so happens to look gorgeous thanks to the eye of the great Roger Deakins, but make no mistake, Blade Runner 2049 will go down as one of the best within the next few years.

A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and noir.

She writes young adult science fiction, with side trips into adult future - noir and sweet royal romance.

The French also introduced the expression roman noir («black novel»), by which they refer to all American hard - boiled fiction.

So, while the movie The Maltese Falcon is considered film noir, the book from which it's derived is hard - boiled fiction and not literary noir based on the characteristics described above.

For example, his Pulitzer - winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay offers historical fiction along with a look at the Golden Age of comics, Jewish mysticism, and the importance of family, while The Yiddish Policeman's Union won multiple literary, mystery, and science - fiction awards for its blend of alternate history and noir in a story rich in characters, ideas, and polished prose.

Our enthusiasms embrace Gothic, Weird Fiction, and Noir, as well as much that might be classified as Horror, but we also appreciate literary fiction that can not be easily fitted into a marketingFiction, and Noir, as well as much that might be classified as Horror, but we also appreciate literary fiction that can not be easily fitted into a marketingfiction that can not be easily fitted into a marketing niche.

He is a recipient of the Great Lakes Book Award in Fiction, and was a featured guest at the Festival International du Roman Noir in Frontignan, France.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, PANK, on NPR, and in numerous anthologies like Thrillers: 100 Must - Reads, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, and St. Louis Noir.

Where focus until now has been very strong on crime — the Nordic noir — there's a shift in perspective these days, and a growing interest in general fiction from our region.

It's a mix of stories from crime fiction noir to paranormal, with my brand of dark humor.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

More than a decade after winning the 1992 Best First Novel Edgar for Slow Motion Riot, Peter Blauner has returned from writing scripts for television to spin another noir crime fiction steeped in moral relativism and driven by a flawed, but empathetic, protagonist.

Ames is mostly a humorous writer of essays and fiction, so the noir writing is a new avenue for him.

On the other hand, if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!