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FILM NOIR, NOIR MUSICAL FILMS, FILM CENSORSHIP books by Sheri Chinen Biesen

New Film Noir Musical Book

Music in the Shadows

Noir Musical Films

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Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of “noir musical” films... Where Film Noir and Musical Come Together. Film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores how noir musical films use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. See Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films and Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Read more at: Music in the Shadows blog
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"This volume stands out as one of the best and perhaps the single most essential book in English on film noir."

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Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir

Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
"The camera slowly zooms in on a silhouette of a man on crutches until blackness fills the screen..."—Blackout

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Sheri Chinen Biesen
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen is Professor of Film History, author of Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style (Columbia University Press, 2024), Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen (Columbia University Press, 2018). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, M.A. and B.A. at the University of Southern California School of Cinema and has taught at USC, University of California, University of Texas, and in England. She has contributed to BBC documentary The Rules of Film Noir, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Film and History, Film Noir: The Directors, Turner Classic Movies’ Public Enemies Warner Bros. Gangster Collection, Film Noir Reader 4, served as Secretary of Literature/Film Association, Founding Chair of Stars & Screen Film & Media History Conference, serves on the editorial board of Film Criticism, and edited The Velvet Light Trap.
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