Gats, Gams, and Guts - Comtois, Pierre V.
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As early as 1946, French film critic Nino Frank was able to identify a new trend in the American film industry, one that he labeled film noir. Loosely translated, the term described movies that had an overall black or dark nature that described both their cinematographical qualities using light and shadow to create mood and their subject matter that often dealt in criminal activity or an emotionally oppressive atmosphere. This last was often depicted in literal terms as the descent of characters from naive or law-abiding citizens into desperate, hunted souls. Here are the cold-blooded killers,…mehr

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As early as 1946, French film critic Nino Frank was able to identify a new trend in the American film industry, one that he labeled film noir. Loosely translated, the term described movies that had an overall black or dark nature that described both their cinematographical qualities using light and shadow to create mood and their subject matter that often dealt in criminal activity or an emotionally oppressive atmosphere. This last was often depicted in literal terms as the descent of characters from naive or law-abiding citizens into desperate, hunted souls. Here are the cold-blooded killers, crusading cops, stolid Feds, stoolies, ex-cons, femme fatales, long suffering wives and lovers, conniving grifters, and innocent dupes that populate an underworld that most people never encounter in their daily lives. In Gats, Gams, and Guts: A Field Guide to the Dark World of Film Noir the best examples of the genre are presented in handy to read and accessible capsule reviews highlighting the actors and actresses, the directors and scriptwriters, and the cinematographers and novelists who inadvertently created a uniquely American cinematic form.
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Pierre V. Comtois has been the editor and publisher of "Fungi, the Magazine of Fantasy and Weird Fiction" since 1984 and has had a number of books released by numerous publishers including "Goat Mother and Others" by Chaosium Fiction in 2015, A Well Ordered Universe by Desert Breeze Publishers in 2016, and "Marvel Comics in the 1980s: An Issue by Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon" by Twomorrows Pubs in 2015. Forthcoming books include "Scheduled for Extinction," a science fiction novel from Desert Breeze and "Talismanic," a horror novel from Rogue Phoenix Press. Comtois has contributed fiction to many small press magazines over the years including various Chaosium Books anthologies. The author has also written a number of other books including novels such as "Strange Company" and "Sometimes a Warm Rain Falls;" non-fiction such as "Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor;" and short story collections such as "The Way the Future Was" and "The Portable Pierre V. Comtois." Comtois has also found the time to contribute non-fiction articles to such magazines as World War II, America's Civil War, Wild West, and Military History, many of which were collected in "Hazardous History." For more information visit www.pierrevcomtois.com