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Author: Francis M. Nevins
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9780892962976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life and career of the American mystery writer, discusses his novels and major short stories, and describes his influence on the film noir genre
Author: Mark T. Bassett
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0299269132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlues of a Lifetime is essential reading for people interested in suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. Woolrich’s autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, his family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, and his philosophy of life.
Author: Cornell Woolrich
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-24
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0786482818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtremely 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.
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher: Orion
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780575017238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cornell Woolrich
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Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781613470374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFour of Cornell Woolrich's best supernatural novellas collected together in one book for the first time.
Author: Christine Photinos
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-11-02
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1476624763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich's stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.
Author: Michael Dirda
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780393057577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA showcase of one hundred of the world's most significant books offers the author's introductory essays on such writers as James Boswell, Colette, and Joseph Roth, and includes explorations of a range of genres and specific works.
Author: Matthew Phipps Shiel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780803292796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "last man" novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence. As he descends into madness over the years, he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny?and the fate of the human race?are part of a profound, cosmological plan.
Author: Kim Newman
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1789097746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I’d read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together they will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.
