Terribly Cuneiform

Film : collections + references
TK's film collection: [Genres] [Titles] [Want List]

A Comprehensive Film Noir Checklist (currently > 570 films listed):

TITLES: [html] [pdf]     |     DATES: [html] [pdf]
TO MY FRIENDS:

This is my film collection that I am making available to loan to friends and family. Right now my two primary interests are film noir (mostly VHS) and the American musical (DVD) but there are assorted other things in the collection (e.g. good collections of Fritz Lang, Sam Peckinpah, and Satyajit Ray films: all recommended). In my database I am also referencing films I have seen and films that I want to see and/or add to my collection, so make sure you look to see what the status is.

My rules are simple for loans: contact me and return the film within a week. If I have to hound anyone to get them back, their privileges are revoked until they repent by buying me a glass of wine or by filling in a missing title from the wish list.

If you want to borrow any of these films, contact me.

Terry Kuny
P: +1-819-776-6602
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10 Shades of Noir
A great introductory starting point to film noir.

Film Noir Index
A good starter list of readings and films.

Film Noir Reader
Alain Silver and James Ursini have written extensively about film noir and this site is about their books. Essential reading for anyone interested in film noir. There are now three volumes in the Film Noir Reader series. Volume 1+2 are available from TK.

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (Third Edition).
Another essential reference source. Available from TK.

A Girl and a Gun : The Complete Guide to Film Noir on Video.
David N. Meyer. An inexpensive renters guide to noir on video. Available from TK.

Film noir: A comprehensive, illustrated reference to movies, terms and persons.
Michael L. Stephens. 1995. A very good reference book but pricey. Available from TK.

Dark City: The Film Noir
Selby, Spencer, McFarland, Jefferson, 1984. Available from TK.

The Noir Style
Alain Silver and James Ursini. Overlook Press. Do not have but highly regarded.

Film Noir: Dark Side of the Screen
Hirsch, Foster. Da Capo. 1981. Available from TK.

Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
James Naremore. University of California Press. 1998. Do not have yet.

More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts
Eddie Muller. St. Martin's Griffin. Do not have yet.

No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir
Interesting thesis by John Blaser, illustrated and online.

High Heels on Wet Pavement: Film Noir and the Femme Fatale
Nice short essay.

Film noir bookstore.
Rather busy design but a good short list of other film noir titles.

Class Act Movie Musicals
A huge online reference but ackwardly organized. A classic labor of love website.

Great MGM Musicals
Ugly design but a great list of these films.

Red, Hot & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical
Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996

American Musical Theatre (second edition)
Gerald Bordman, Oxford University Press, 1992

Broadway
Brooks Atkinson (revised edition), Macmillan, 1974

Hollywood Musicals
Ted Sennett, Harry N. Abrams, 1981

Star-Spangled Rhythm: Voices of Broadway and Hollywood
(4 CDs) Smithsonian Recordings.

The American Musical
Altman, Rick. British Film Institute, London, 1989.

Genre: The Musical
Altman, Rick. Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with the British Film Institute, London, 1981.

Dance in the Hollywood Musical
Delamater, Jerome. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1978.

The Hollywood Musical
Feuer, Jane. British Film Institute Cinema Series, Macmillan, London, 1982.

Hollywood Genres
Schatz, Thomas. Random House, New York, 1981, Chapter 7, 'The Musical'.