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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.
Alain Silver is known for Sacred Blood (2015), Time at the Top (1999) and Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993).
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. His articles have appeared in numerous film journals, newspapers, and online magazines.
The Gangster and Film Noir Revised. Alain Silver. 2018, Film Noir Prototypes. With an emphasis on visual analysis, this essay revisits the central idea of “The Gangster and Film Noir”: that "the style and substance of the gangster film in the late 1920s and early1930s are essential parts of the cinematic line leading to the noir cycle.
producer, actor. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age. «Girl Stolen», «Billy», «Fatherland», «Anne Frank and Me», «Lars Shrike Walks the Night»...
Film producer, critic and historian Alain Silver is the author of 20 books on cinematic topics, including The Noir Style, LA Noir, the Film Noir Reader series, and Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra, and Katharine Hepburn for TASCHEN's Icon Series.
17 Nov 2005 · Long regarded as one of the world's most astute film analysts, Alain Silver deconstructs the key aspects of this vital film genre, from its focus on violence and death as a means of understanding...
