Books
January, 2000
Two silhouetted figures--a man and a woman--stand in an airplane hangar, poised to disappear into a netherworld shrouded in fog. It's a scene from 1955's Big Combo, and it's quintessential film noir--shadowy bars, dark streets, deadly females and doppelgängers setting the mood for sinister goings-on. Alain Silver and James Ursini's homage to the genre is The Noir Style (Overlook), with smart text and great stills from the classic period (Maltese Falcon) through the neo-noir films of the Nineties...
