On Dangerous Ground : Film Noir Poems

On Dangerous Ground : Film Noir Poems

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Author: Woody Haut
Genre: Poetry
Tag: poetry
Publisher: Hunsbury Press
Publication Year: 2023
Format: 5 x 8 inches
Length: 105 pages
ASIN: B0CFZFJYHF
ISBN: 9798392544240
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About the Book

Translating the poetry of film noir into film noir poetry, Woody Haut’s On Dangerous Ground zeroes in on 50 classic examples of the genre. A long-time noir-watcher, Haut focuses on the directors, writers, actors, and cinematographers, not to mention the political implications of assorted femmes fatales, doomed heroes, luckless losers, lonely psychopaths, bleak urban settings, sartorial styles, oblique angles and lighting, low-key, high-contrast or anything in-between. The result is a series of jazz-inflected and linguistically fractured poems as original as they are illuminating.

Woody Haut

Woody Haut is a London-based journalist and author of Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War, Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood. In addition, he has published three novels: Cry For a Nickel, Die For a Dime, Days of Smoke and Skin Flick.

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