As the director of "Cat People", "I Walked with a Zombie", and "Night of the Demon", Jacques Tourneur crafted three horror classics which, decades later, have lost none of their power to frighten audiences. His 1947 film "Out of the Past" is still acknowledged as the quintessential "film noir". Yet Tourneur himself remains under-appreciated and his contribution to cinema history much neglected. Many of his films, however, reveal a fluid artistry absent from the routine studio fare of the era. Working in a variety of genres, from Westerns ("Canyon Passage") and spy films ("Berlin Express") to swashbucklers ("The Flame and the Arrow") and melodramas ("Experiment Perilous"), Tourneur imposed a personal cinematic vision that emphasized mystery and sensuality. In this in-depth exploration of Tourneur's entire career, Chris Fujiwara offers a detailed film-by-film analysis of this influential director's work.
- ISBN10 0801865611
- ISBN13 9780801865619
- Publish Date 10 May 2001 (first published 31 October 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 344
- Language English