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Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers

Radio and Film Noir

Frank Krutnik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3639-6 (ISBN)

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Film noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? These included adaptations of such well-known films as The Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet, and Double Indemnity, detective series devoted to the adventures of private eyes Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and the spine-tingling anthology programs Lights Out and Suspense. Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling on the two media, arguing that radio’s noir dramas played an important role as a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films. Besides shedding new light on long-neglected radio dramas, and a medium that was cinema’s major rival, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study also uses these programs to challenge conventional understandings of the much-debated topic of noir.

FRANK KRUTNIK is an emeritus reader in film studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His publications include Popular Film and Television Comedy; In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity; Inventing Jerry Lewis; and he is coeditor of Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (Rutgers University Press).

Introduction : Radio and Film Noir
Chapter 1: Noir Movies on the Radio
Chapter 2: Strange Romance - Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama
Chapter 3: Seriality and the Radio Detective
Chapter 4: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1 - From Book to Film
Chapter 5: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2 - Radio Drama
Chapter 6: Not for the Timid Soul - The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out
Chapter 7: Radio’s Outstanding Theatre of Thrills
Chapter 8: Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense
Coda: Radio/Noir
Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.2025
Zusatzinfo	23 B-W Images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9788-3639-2 / 1978836392
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3639-6 / 9781978836396
Zustand	Neuware