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User Review - echaika - LibraryThingMore depth than his earlier effort, but he does include films that I consider gangster, not noir. Just because gangster films are dark, doesn't make them noir. They spring from a different source ... Read full review
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| Title | Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir |
| Author | Foster Hirsch |
| Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation, 2004 |
| ISBN | 161774784X, 9781617747847 |
| Length | 398 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film & Video / Reference |
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