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Creatures of Darkness
Gene D. Phillips
其他書名
Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir
出版
University Press of Kentucky
, 2021-03-17
主題
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Social Science / Popular Culture
Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective
Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Crime
ISBN
0813160014
9780813160016
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TgQaEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler’s thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir.” —Alain Silver, film producer and author
Raymond Chandler’s seven novels, including
The Big Sleep
(1939) and
The Long Goodbye
(1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife with corruption and lawlessness. In addition to novels, Chandler wrote short stories and penned the screenplays for several films, including
Double Indemnity
(1944) and
Strangers on a Train
(1951). His work with Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on these projects was fraught with the difficulties of collaboration between established directors and an author who disliked having to edit his writing on demand.
Creatures of Darkness
is the first major biocritical study of Chandler in twenty years. Gene Phillips explores Chandler’s unpublished script for
Lady in the Lake
, examines the process of adaptation of the novel
Strangers on a Train
, discusses the merits of the unproduced screenplay for
Playback
, and compares Howard Hawks’s director’s cut of
The Big Sleep
with the version shown in theaters. Through interviews he conducted with Wilder, Hitchcock, Hawks, and Edward Dmytryk over the past several decades, Phillips provides deeper insight into Chandler’s sometimes difficult personality.
Chandler’s wisecracking private eye, Philip Marlowe, has spawned a thousand imitations.
Creatures of Darkness
lucidly explains the author’s dramatic impact on both the literary and cinematic worlds, demonstrating the immeasurable debt that both detective fiction and the neo-noir films of today owe to Chandler’s stark vision.