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The pioneering, incisive survey of noir on television-the first of its kind
Noir-as a style, movement, or sensibility-has its roots in hard-boiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cinéastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story.
Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC's adaptation of Woolrich's The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the '40s and '50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neo-noirs of the '60s and '70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir.
OneDanger Man: CBS 1961-1966, The Prisoner: CBS 1968Chaos and OrderLive Noir One: The Black Angel (1945) and Other Early MelodramaIntroduction: Lights Out in the WastelandHollywood Noir: The Rise of the TelefilmThe Fugitive: ABC 1963-1967Light and ShadowDragnet: NBC 1951-1959Live Noir Two: The AnthologiesLive NoirTwoA Classic CycleI Led 3 Lives: Syndicated 1953-1956Live Noir Three: The DetectivesThe Investigative JourneyUniversal Noir '64The Loner: CBS 1965-1966The Noir SettingNeo NoirM Squad: NBC 1957-1960The Invaders: ABC 1967-1968Closing Scenes: TV Noir in ContextRichard Diamond: CBS 1957-1959, NBC 1959-1960 - Peter Gunn: NBC 1958-1960, ABC 1960-1961Kolchak: The Night Stalker: ABC 1972-197577 Sunset Strip: ABC 1958-1963Harry O: ABC 1973-1976Staccato: NBC 1959-1960The Twilight Zone: CBS 1959-1964
Noir-as a style, movement, or sensibility-has its roots in hard-boiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cinéastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story.
Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject. Deconstructing its key elements with astute analysis, from NBC's adaptation of Woolrich's The Black Angel to the anthology programs of the '40s and '50s, from the classic period of Dragnet, M Squad, and 77 Sunset Strip to neo-noirs of the '60s and '70s including The Fugitive, Kolchak, and Harry O., this is the essential volume on TV noir.
OneDanger Man: CBS 1961-1966, The Prisoner: CBS 1968Chaos and OrderLive Noir One: The Black Angel (1945) and Other Early MelodramaIntroduction: Lights Out in the WastelandHollywood Noir: The Rise of the TelefilmThe Fugitive: ABC 1963-1967Light and ShadowDragnet: NBC 1951-1959Live Noir Two: The AnthologiesLive NoirTwoA Classic CycleI Led 3 Lives: Syndicated 1953-1956Live Noir Three: The DetectivesThe Investigative JourneyUniversal Noir '64The Loner: CBS 1965-1966The Noir SettingNeo NoirM Squad: NBC 1957-1960The Invaders: ABC 1967-1968Closing Scenes: TV Noir in ContextRichard Diamond: CBS 1957-1959, NBC 1959-1960 - Peter Gunn: NBC 1958-1960, ABC 1960-1961Kolchak: The Night Stalker: ABC 1972-197577 Sunset Strip: ABC 1958-1963Harry O: ABC 1973-1976Staccato: NBC 1959-1960The Twilight Zone: CBS 1959-1964