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Review title: How about some value for money
Product review: I paid a c-note for Brion's "Le Film Noir" back when a dollar was worth more than a Euro, but for this book? I saw the scintillating reviews (one posted in duplicate) and read it at the AMPAS library, which are the only shelves on which I would ever expect to find a publication from Greenwood (or McFarland or Scarecrow). This "tome" (who wrote that review?) is a lot less pretentious than Jon Tuska's "Dark Cinema," Greenwood's foundation noir text; but really, after Foster Hirsch and Silver & Ursini have both weighed in at length on neo-noir, was this book necessary? It is not exceptional if marginally enlightening, so for hard core noir readers only. If you really have a $100 to spare and want to fill out your a noir library, buy Detours & Lost Highways, The Noir Style, a couple of Noir Readers or some other essential book you may be missing and still have enough left over for the Warner Bros Noir Collection.
