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<font size="2"><p>Book Review
<font size="4"><br>The Noir Style</font>
<br>book review by Gary Johnson</font>
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<p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>O</b></font>ne of the main deficiencies of most film literature is inattention to the imagery of film. Too often critics become enamored of thematic concerns as explicated by a film's verbal texture while scarcely mentioning the relevance of the images projected 30 feet high on theater screens. Film noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini address this concern in <i>The Noir Style</i>, where they provide commentary on over 150 duotone photographs culled from the world of <i>film noir</i>. The commentary focuses exclusively on how films construct meaning through lighting, camera angles, <i>mise-en-scene</i>, and other visual means.
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