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Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers Radio and Film Noir

Krutnik Frank
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781978836396
Publisert
2025-05-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
513 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
286

Forfatter
Krutnik Frank

Biografisk notat

FRANK KRUTNIK is an emeritus reader in film studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His publications include Popular Film and Television Comedy; In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity; and Inventing Jerry Lewis; and he is coeditor of Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (Rutgers University Press).

Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers Radio and Film Noir

Krutnik Frank
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"A fascinating and thoroughly engaging book that successfully explores the neglected field of radio drama and its close relationship with cinema. Krutnik's excellent scholarship widens our knowledge of a thrilling era of popular culture, finding a dynamic correlation between the screen and the airwaves." - Richard Hand (author of Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931–1952) "In this incredibly detailed book, Krutnik has thrillingly reimagined the ecosystem of noir by resituating it among the key radio programs through which it reached the public. It models a compelling new approach to the historical study of media interplay." - Neil Verma (author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama) "Krutnik elegantly synthesizes his meticulous research on the noir mediascape, offering a new and compelling account of the transmedial currency of the noir mystery story across page, screen, and airwaves in American culture." - Helen Hanson (author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film)

Film noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? These included adaptations of such well-known films as The Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet, and Double Indemnity, detective series devoted to the adventures of private eyes Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and the spine-tingling anthology programs Lights Out and Suspense. Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling on the two media, arguing that radio’s noir dramas played an important role as a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films. Besides shedding new light on long-neglected radio dramas, and a medium that was cinema’s major rival, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study also uses these programs to challenge conventional understandings of the much-debated topic of noir.
Les mer
Introduction : Radio and Film Noir
Chapter 1: Noir Movies on the Radio
Chapter 2: Strange Romance - Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama
Chapter 3: Seriality and the Radio Detective
Chapter 4: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1 - From Book to Film
Chapter 5: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2 - Radio Drama
Chapter 6: Not for the Timid Soul - The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out
Chapter 7: Radio’s Outstanding Theatre of Thrills
Chapter 8: Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense
Coda: Radio/Noir
Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Introduction: Radio and Film Noir 1
1 Noir Movies on the Radio 23
2 Strange Romance: Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama 47
3 Seriality and the Radio Detective 77
4 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1:
From Book to Film 89
5 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2:
Radio Drama 100
6 Not for the Timid Soul: The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out 126
7 Radio’s Outstanding Theatre of Thrills 145
8 Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense 173
Coda: Radio/Noir 199
Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films 203
Acknowledgments
221
Notes 223
Index 000
Les mer

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"A fascinating and thoroughly engaging book that successfully explores the neglected field of radio drama and its close relationship with cinema. Krutnik's excellent scholarship widens our knowledge of a thrilling era of popular culture, finding a dynamic correlation between the screen and the airwaves." - Richard Hand (author of Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931–1952) "In this incredibly detailed book, Krutnik has thrillingly reimagined the ecosystem of noir by resituating it among the key radio programs through which it reached the public. It models a compelling new approach to the historical study of media interplay." - Neil Verma (author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama) "Krutnik elegantly synthesizes his meticulous research on the noir mediascape, offering a new and compelling account of the transmedial currency of the noir mystery story across page, screen, and airwaves in American culture." - Helen Hanson (author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film)

Film noir is one of the most exciting and most debated products of studio-era Hollywood, but did you know that American radio broadcast many programs in the noir vein through the 1940s and 1950s? These included adaptations of such well-known films as The Maltese Falcon, Murder, My Sweet, and Double Indemnity, detective series devoted to the adventures of private eyes Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, and the spine-tingling anthology programs Lights Out and Suspense. Thrillers, Chillers, and Killers is the first book to explore in detail noir storytelling on the two media, arguing that radio’s noir dramas played an important role as a counterpart to, influence on, or a spin-off from the noir films. Besides shedding new light on long-neglected radio dramas, and a medium that was cinema’s major rival, this scrupulously researched yet accessible study also uses these programs to challenge conventional understandings of the much-debated topic of noir.
Les mer
Introduction : Radio and Film Noir
Chapter 1: Noir Movies on the Radio
Chapter 2: Strange Romance - Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama
Chapter 3: Seriality and the Radio Detective
Chapter 4: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1 - From Book to Film
Chapter 5: The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2 - Radio Drama
Chapter 6: Not for the Timid Soul - The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out
Chapter 7: Radio’s Outstanding Theatre of Thrills
Chapter 8: Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense
Coda: Radio/Noir
Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

Introduction: Radio and Film Noir 1
1 Noir Movies on the Radio 23
2 Strange Romance: Laura, Film Noir, and Radio Drama 47
3 Seriality and the Radio Detective 77
4 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #1:
From Book to Film 89
5 The Transmedial Seriality of Michael Shayne, #2:
Radio Drama 100
6 Not for the Timid Soul: The Weird Mysteries of Lights Out 126
7 Radio’s Outstanding Theatre of Thrills 145
8 Noir Anguish: Cornell Woolrich and Suspense 173
Coda: Radio/Noir 199
Appendix: Radio Adaptations of Noir Films 203
Acknowledgments
221
Notes 223
Index 000
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781978836396
Publisert
2025-05-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Rutgers University Press
Vekt
513 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
286

Forfatter
Krutnik Frank

Biografisk notat

FRANK KRUTNIK is an emeritus reader in film studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His publications include Popular Film and Television Comedy; In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity; and Inventing Jerry Lewis; and he is coeditor of Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (Rutgers University Press).

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