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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.
Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, & Commentator Credits. Or if you have IMDbPro: u001a. Links to books written or edited by and movies and compact discs produced by Alain Silver.
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.
Alain Silver is known as an Actor, Producer, Supervising Producer, Writer, Story, Second Assistant Director, Director, First Assistant Director, Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Development Producer, Production Executive, Production Manager, and Screenplay.
Alain Silver is a Santa Monica-based writer/producer of independent feature films, whose books include genre surveys on the samurai film and the vampire film, director studies of Robert Aldrich and David Lean, and seven volumes on film noir.
Alain Silver is known for Sacred Blood (2015), Time at the Top (1999) and Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993).
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.
