Robin Buss
French Film Noir.
London: Marion Boyars, 1994. 071452963  224 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is like new. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. Work is illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Dust jacket exhibits very light shelfwear and is now preserved in mylar cover.
"This wide-ranging study of film noir analyzes the peculiarly French contribution to the crime thriller/ganster movie genres inspired as they were by American crime films of the thirties and forties. The author shows how such directors as Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol and Corneau have responded to the demand for films that are satisfying as fiction while at the same time preserving a plausible background of French life and society." (Dust jacket text)