Author: Francis M. Nevins
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780892962976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Traces 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
Cornell Woolrich--first You Dream, Then You Die
Author: Francis M. Nevins
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780892962976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Traces 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
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780892962976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
Traces 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
Blues of a Lifetime
Author: Mark T. Bassett
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299269132
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Blues 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.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299269132
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Blues 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.
Nightmare
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir
Author: Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786482818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction
Author: Christine Photinos
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476624763
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
In 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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476624763
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
In 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.
Bound to Please
Author: Michael Dirda
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057577
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A 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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057577
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A 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.
Nightwebs
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575017238
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780575017238
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Dark Melody of Madness
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613470374
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four of Cornell Woolrich's best supernatural novellas collected together in one book for the first time.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613470374
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four of Cornell Woolrich's best supernatural novellas collected together in one book for the first time.
The Purple Cloud
Author: Matthew Phipps Shiel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803292796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"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.
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
Author: B. Murphy
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230107354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.