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Alain Silver is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter; music producer; film critic, film historian, DVD commentator, author and editor of books and essays on film topics, especially film noir, the samurai film, and horror films.
Jul 1, 2024 · Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward mark the beginning of what they term “the noir cycle” with The Maltese Falcon in 1941. But many other writers choose Stranger on the Third Floor as the beginning of the genre that would dominate the 1940s.
Alain Silver has 57 books on Goodreads with 5952 ratings. Alain Silver’s most popular book is Film Noir Reader (Limelight).
Apr 2, 2024 · Authors Alain Silver and James Ursini tell the complete, never-before-told history of writing, making, and marketing of Double Indemnity in their latest and most provocative work on film noir: From the Moment They Met It Was Murder.
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Alain Silver has co-written and co-edited a score of books including The Samurai Film, The Noir Style, The Vampire Film, Raymond Chandlers Los Angeles, director studies of David Lean and Robert Aldrich, and four Film Noir Readers.
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The complete filmography from Alain Silver's The Samurai Film (1983 edition). Starts with filmographies of major directors (Hideo Gosha, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, Kihachi Okamoto, Masahiro Shinoda), then series filmographies (Kyoshiro Nemuri, Zatoichi, The Crimson Bat), then chronology of other samurai films (1950-1982).
Film producer, critic, and historian Alain Silver is the author of numerous books on cinema, including The Noir Style, LA Noir, the Film Noir Reader series. He has been a lecturer and panelist at numerous film festivals and conferences across the U.S. and Canada.
