TV Noir, Allen Glover
TV Noir, Allen Glover
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TV Noir
Dark Drama on the Small Screen

Author: Allen Glover

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 13 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2019


Synopsis

The pioneering, incisive survey of noir on television—the first of its kind Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots in hard-boiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called “film noir” by French cinéastes. But film isn’t the only medium with a taste for a dark story.Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC’s adaptation of Woolrich’s The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the ’40s and ’50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neo-noirs of the ’60s and ’70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir.

About Allen Glover

Allen Glover is a film and television historian. As a curator at the Paley Center for Media, he specialized in creating exhibitions on cultural icons such as David Bowie, Rod Serling, Robert Altman, Buster Keaton, and Lenny Bruce. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit him at agkinowerken.com.

About Richard Ferrone

Award-winning narrator Richard Ferrone has recorded books by many well-known writers, including James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Mickey Spillane, and Dashiell Hammett, and for over twenty-five years has been the voice of Lucas Davenport in John Sandford’s bestselling Prey series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 07, 2020

This is a terrific book. It looks at some familiar things (TV detectives, Twilight Zone and the career of Rod Serling, the TV work of Don Siegel and Robert Altman) in a new way. By putting these things next to each other, instead of keeping them in separate genres, Glover helps us see points of conne......more


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“Essential for noir lovers, especially those who have exhausted the film canon and are hungry for more.” Library Journal