And this is where from now on you will find articles on popular culture, book reviews roughly from the fields of cultural studies, American studies, musicology, design, architecture, literary criticism and other stuff that keeps my mind (and yours, I guess) busy. This website usually is being updated every two weeks. However, this may also […]
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Author: Dr. A. Ebert
The Noir Forties: The American People From Victory to Cold War by Richard Lingeman (2012)
Let us put aside for a moment the rather usual and thus “uncritical” approach to the USA in the 1940s and 1950s as a cultural, political and national whole; and now let us try to experience that world through the eyes of a fictional character in a Film Noir. Then we would sense the many […]
Film Noir Graphics: Where Danger Lives by Alain Silver and James Ursini (2012)
So there comes another promising title by professional collaborators team Alain Silver and James Ursini, two critics, collectors and authors of books and journals on movie directors, film industry, and film noir in particular. By their mere output, the two authors today form part of the canon of modern film noir appreciation. The reader then […]
SOULFOOD. Food & Music. Fat & Yummy + CD (2012)
Now, I would generally disagree with anybody who wanted to convince me of the crucial interrelatedness of a certain style of music and the corresponding style of cooking to complement the music. Suppose Mozart grew up eating not the fluffy pastry so typical of certain regions of Austria, but instead, let’s say smoked salmon and […]
Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir by Gene D. Phillips (2011)
Since the last two years saw an enormous wave of reissues of vintage crime novels – mostly out of print and now hard to find hard-boiled mystery – often being the source document for movies of the film-noir genre, it is not at all surprising to witness a growing interest in the movies of that […]