No Daylight in That Face: Adventures in Film Noir
暫譯: 那張臉上沒有日光：黑色電影的冒險
Gifford, Barry, Gorman, Edward, Mossman, Dow
- 出版商: Rare Bird Books
- 出版日期: 2025-05-13
- 售價: $1,080
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,026
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 192
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 164428460X
- ISBN-13: 9781644284605
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Out of print for years and newly retitled and expanded, this deluxe new edition of Gifford's celebrated handbook unlocks the secrets of noir movies and their relevance today
For a tour of noir cinema, No Daylight in That Face is the perfect companion, and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and oftentimes violent underbelly of this dark movie genre that occupies a favorite niche in American popular culture.Some are classics, some are little known and seldom seen, but all, once viewed, are deeply remembered by aficionados of noir. Gifford's roll call of unforgettables includes these, and more: The Asphalt Jungle, Body and Soul, Body Heat, Charley Varrick, Chinatown, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, D.O.A., Double Indemnity, High Sierra, Key Largo, Kiss of Death, Mean Streets, Mildred Pierce, Mr. Majestyk, Out of the Past, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Strangers on a Train, White Heat, along with several noir classics from Europe―Repulsion, The Hidden Room, Shoot the Piano Player, The 400 Blows, Odd Man Out.
Gifford identifies the directors and names the many noir stars, the greats and not-so-greats who were cast in the indelible roles of hoods, B-girls, psychopaths, grifters, gumshoes, waifs, tarts, femme fatales, mobsters, molls, and ex-cons.
In an introduction, novelists Edward Gorman and Dow Mossman collaboratively applaud Gifford's selections and his insights: "The movies discussed here range from the lowest of the B's to the biggest of the A's, and this book is going to make you want to run out and locate every one of them (and good luck to you; finding The Devil Thumbs a Ride could take you a lifetime). Through Barry Gifford's eyes, we begin to see their similarities and their value. What Andrew Sarris did for the mainstream film in The American Cinema, Barry does here for the crime film."
With a connoisseur's insight and an offbeat sensitivity perfectly tailored to his subjects, Gifford's brief essays cover a hundred of the noir buff's favorites. His highly polished impressions take the reader through five decades of noir to find both the heart and the art of the plotline.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
多年來缺貨，這本經典手冊經過重新命名和擴充的豪華新版本，揭示了黑色電影的秘密及其當今的相關性。
作為黑色電影的導覽書，《No Daylight in That Face》是完美的伴侶，而巴里·吉佛德（Barry Gifford）則是理想的導遊。他精選的電影揭示了這一黑暗電影類型的威脅、情緒化以及時常暴力的底層，這一類型在美國流行文化中佔據著一個受歡迎的利基市場。
有些是經典，有些則鮮為人知且不常見，但所有這些電影一旦觀看，對於黑色電影的愛好者來說都會深深記住。吉佛德列舉的難忘作品包括《The Asphalt Jungle》、《Body and Soul》、《Body Heat》、《Charley Varrick》、《Chinatown》、《The Devil Thumbs a Ride》、《D.O.A.》、《Double Indemnity》、《High Sierra》、《Key Largo》、《Kiss of Death》、《Mean Streets》、《Mildred Pierce》、《Mr. Majestyk》、《Out of the Past》、《The Strange Love of Martha Ivers》、《Strangers on a Train》、《White Heat》，以及幾部來自歐洲的黑色經典——《Repulsion》、《The Hidden Room》、《Shoot the Piano Player》、《The 400 Blows》、《Odd Man Out》。
吉佛德指出了導演並提到了許多黑色電影明星，無論是偉大的還是不那麼偉大的，他們都在不可磨滅的角色中出演了黑幫、B-girls、精神病患者、騙子、偵探、孤兒、妓女、致命女人、黑幫分子、情婦和前罪犯。
在引言中，小說家愛德華·戈曼（Edward Gorman）和道·莫斯曼（Dow Mossman）共同讚揚吉佛德的選擇和見解：「這裡討論的電影從最低的B級片到最大的A級片都有，這本書會讓你想要立刻去找到每一部（祝你好運；找到《The Devil Thumbs a Ride》可能需要你一生的時間）。透過巴里·吉佛德的眼睛，我們開始看到它們的相似性和價值。安德魯·薩里斯（Andrew Sarris）在《The American Cinema》中為主流電影所做的，巴里在這裡為犯罪電影所做的。」
以品味家的洞察力和對主題的獨特敏感性，吉佛德的簡短文章涵蓋了一百部黑色電影愛好者的最愛。他高度精練的印象帶領讀者穿越五十年的黑色電影，尋找情節的核心和藝術。
