No Daylight in That Face: Adventures in Film Noir

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For both the film buff and the general moviegoer, this celebrated handbook unlocks the secrets of noir movies and their relevance today

For a tour ofnoircinema, No Daylight in this Faceis 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.
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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.
, Barry does here for the crime film."
to find both the heart and the art of the plotline.

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"Gifford knows hisnoir. The essays are better than some of the films he writes about."

Elmore Leonard

Author Bio

Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club, which is now a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann. He has written under many pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection, Cages, was nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection. His collection, The Dark Fantastic, was nominated for the same award in 2001. He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero, Black Lizard, Cemetery Dance, the anthology Tales of Zorro, and many more. Dow Mossman is the author of The Stones of Summer, originally published in 1972 by Bobbs-Merrill, and Popular Library a year later. Following publication of the novel, Mossman was mentally exhausted and spent several months in an Iowa sanitarium. The novel soon went out of print, but in 2002, Mossman became the subject of the documentary film Stone Reader by Mark Moskowitz, which chronicled the director's attempt to resuscitate the acclaimed book and speak to its seemingly vanished author. After the film's release, The Stones of Summer was reissued by Barnes & Noble, and Mossman is now semi-retired living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.