Author : James Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789099226
Tech Noir
James Cameron
Tech Noir
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Tech-Noir
Paul Meehan
Author : Paul Meehan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476609737
Tech-Noir by Paul Meehan Pdf
This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk movement, the book examines more than 100 films in which the common noir elements of crime, mystery, surrealism, and human perversity intersect with the high technology of science fiction. The author also details the hybrid subgenre's considerable influences on contemporary music, fashion, and culture.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tom Sweterlitsch
Author : Tom Sweterlitsch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698142701
Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch Pdf
In this “wild mash-up of Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, and William S. Burroughs”*, a man who uses virtual reality to escape the horror of his dystopian world becomes obsessed with a mystery that could drive him mad. Pittsburgh is John Dominic Blaxton’s home even though the city has been uninhabitable ruin and ash for the past decade. The Pittsburgh Dominic lives in is the Archive, an immersive virtual reconstruction of the city’s buildings, parks, and landmarks, as well as the people who once lived there. Including Dominic’s wife and unborn child. When he’s not reliving every recorded moment with his wife in an endless cycle of desperation and despair, Dominic investigates mysterious deaths preserved in the Archive before Pittsburgh’s destruction. His latest cold case is the apparent murder of a woman whose every appearance is deliberately being deleted from the Archive. Obsessed with uncovering this woman’s identity and what happened to her, Dominic follows a trail from the virtual world into reality. But finding the truth buried deep within an illusion means risking his sanity and his very existence... “Tomorrow and Tomorrow is many things: a near-future cyberpunk thriller in the tradition of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; a funny, gloomy meditation on technology and mental illness in the tradition of Phillip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard; a cynically outrageous mystery less in the tradition of Chandler than that of James Ellroy. A bleak, gorgeous romp through a pornographic and political American id. If books like this are the future of fiction, I'm not afraid for books at all.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Stewart O'Nan
Tech-noir Film
Emily Elisabeth Auger
Author : Emily Elisabeth Auger
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Film genres
ISBN : 1841504246
Tech-noir Film by Emily Elisabeth Auger Pdf
From the postapocalyptic world of "Blade Runner" to the""James Cameron mega-hit "Terminator, " tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works including "The Matrix, RoboCop, " and Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein" are discussed with reference to their relationship to tech-noir and one another. Featuring an extensive, clearly indexed filmography, "Tech-Noir Film "will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about the development of this new and highly innovative genre."
The Automatic Detective
A. Lee Martinez
Author : A. Lee Martinez
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429925341
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez Pdf
From the award-winning author of Gil's All Fright Diner comes a fantastic sci-fi mystery read The Automatic Detective Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to earn his citizenship in the process. It should be as easy as crushing a tank for Mack, but some bots just can't catch a break. When Mack's neighbors are kidnapped, Mack sets off on a journey through the dark alleys and gleaming skyscrapers of Empire City. Along the way, he runs afoul of a talking gorilla, a brainy dame, a mutant lowlife, a little green mob boss, and the secret conspiracy at the heart of Empire's founders---not to mention more trouble than he bargained for. What started out as one missing family becomes a battle for the future of Empire and every citizen that calls her home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Seattle Noir
Curt Colbert
Author : Curt Colbert
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933354804
Seattle Noir by Curt Colbert Pdf
Brand new stories by: G. M. Ford, Skye Moody, R. Barri Flowers, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcal , Simon Wood, Brian Thornton, Lou Kemp, Curt Colbert, Robert Lopresti, Paul S. Piper, and Stephan Magcosta. Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. By the mid-50s, the town had added Boeing to its claim to fame, but was still a mostly blue-collar burg that was infamously described as "a cultural dustbin" by the Seattle Symphony's first conductor. Present-day Seattle has become a pricey, cosmopolitan center, home to Microsoft and Starbucks. The city is famous as the birthplace of grunge music, and possesses a flourishing art, theatre, and club scene that many would have thought improbable just a few decades ago. But some things never change--crime being one of them. Seattle's evolution to high-finance and high-tech has simply provided even greater opportunity and reward to those who might be ethically, morally, or economically challenged (crooks, in other words). But most crooks are just ordinary people, not professional thieves or crime bosses--they might be your pleasant neighbor, your wife or lover, your grocer or hairdresser, your minister or banker or lifelong friend--yet even the most upright and honest of them sometimes fall to temptation. Within the stories of Seattle Noir, you will find: a wealthy couple whose marriage is filled with not-so-quiet desperation; a credit card scam that goes over-limit; femmes fatales and hommes fatales; a delicatessen owner whose case is less than kosher; a famous midget actor whose movie roles begin to shrink when he starts growing taller; an ex-cop who learns too much; a group of mystery writers whose fiction causes friction; a Native American shaman caught in a web of secrets and tribal allegiances; sex, lies, and slippery slopes . . . and a cast of characters that always want more, not less . . . unless . . . Curt Colbert is the author of the Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins mysteries, a series of hard-boiled, private detective novels set in 1940s Seattle. The first book, Rat City, was nominated for a Shamus Award in 2001. A Seattle native, Colbert still resides in his hometown.
Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood
Nathaniel Deyo
Author : Nathaniel Deyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030370589
Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood by Nathaniel Deyo Pdf
Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of “film noir” by returning to the films themselves. Pushing against totalizing or generalizing approaches, which may have the unintended effect of flattening out significant distinctions and differences between individual approaches, Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood argues for the importance of staying attuned the varied and variegated formal, aesthetic and thematic strategies at work in individual films. By focusing on these strategies, the book invites readers to consider anew the enabling possibilities of Hollywood filmmaking in the studio era.
Rendezvous Eighteenth
Jake Lamar
Author : Jake Lamar
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429976373
Rendezvous Eighteenth by Jake Lamar Pdf
Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ricky Jenks gave up life in the U.S. years ago and is content, if not happy, with his life as a piano player in a small café in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. He has many friends among the other African-Americans living in Paris and is happily, if casually, involved with a French Muslim woman. But then everything changes. His American life comes crashing down on him when his estranged cousin wants help finding his runaway wife, whom he thinks might have come to Paris, even though he's vague about why. That same night Ricky finds a prostitute dead in his apartment building in Paris's Eighteenth Arrondissment, one of the most multicultural sections of Paris. That these two events could be connected is something he never imagines. This intricate, absorbing thriller is ultimately much more than a suspense novel. Lamar's detailed and vibrant portrait of life in Paris is as much the story of a black man's alienation and redemption-indeed, the story of an entire community searching for a home-as it is a taut thriller about revenge, obsession, and murder
Dallas Noir
David Hale Smith
Author : David Hale Smith
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617752025
Dallas Noir by David Hale Smith Pdf
Gritty all-new crime stories set in the bustling Texas city, by Ben Fountain, Kathleen Kent, James Hime, and many more. In a country with so many interesting cities, Dallas is often overlooked—except on November 22 every year. On that day in 1963, Dallas became American noir. This collection of crime stories takes its inspiration from the darker corners of everyday life in a city that many associate only with a historic assassination—or a glitzy TV show about oil fortunes and family feuds. Featuring brand-new stories by Kathleen Kent, Ben Fountain, James Hime, Harry Hunsicker, Matt Bondurant, Merritt Tierce, Daniel J. Hale, Emma Rathbone, Jonathan Woods, Oscar C. Peña, Clay Reynolds, Lauren Davis, Fran Hillyer, Catherine Cuellar, David Haynes, and J. Suzanne Frank.
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
Paul M. Sammon
Author : Paul M. Sammon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780061053146
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon Pdf
The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.
Hong Kong Neo-Noir
Esther Yau
Author : Esther Yau
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474412681
Hong Kong Neo-Noir by Esther Yau Pdf
The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong neo-noir, its styles and contemporary manifestations, and its connection to mainland China. Case studies include classics such as The Wild Wild Rose (1960) and more recent films like Full Alert (1997) and Exiled (2007), as well as an in-depth look at the careers of iconic figures like Johnnie To and Jackie Chan. By examining at its past and its contemporary development, Hong Kong Neo-Noir also points towards the genre's possible future development.
Technoir
John Lasker
Author : John Lasker
Publisher : The eBook Sale
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Corruption
ISBN : 9781849610698
Technoir by John Lasker Pdf
Investigations into the Phoenix Lights, the Lake Erie Lights, the U.S. military's emerging arsenal of Space Weapons, the super fuel that could bring about Battlefield Moon, how Nelson Mandela helped turn the tide in Iraq, the Forever War in cyberspace, the PlayStation War that's ravaged Africa, the rigging of the 2004 Presidential Election, Murder Simulators, the UFO invasion of Halloween 1973, and other stories from the Darkside of Technology.
Neon Leviathan
T. R. Napper
Author : T. R. Napper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0648663582
Neon Leviathan by T. R. Napper Pdf
A collection of stories about the outsiders - the criminals, the soldiers, the addicts, the mathematicians, the gamblers and the cage fighters, the refugees and the rebels. From the battlefield to alternate realities to the mean streets of the dark city, we walk in the shoes of those who struggle to survive in a neon-saturated, tech-noir future. Twelve hard-edged stories from the dark, often violent, sometimes strange heart of cyberpunk, this collection - as with all the best science fiction - is an exploration of who were are now. In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Philip K Dick, and David Mitchell, Neon Leviathan is a remarkable debut collection from a breakout new author. "Haunting and iridescent--combines the paranoid weirdness of the best Philip K Dick, the chilly but cool-as-fuck future gleam of cyberpunk, and an achingly beautiful literary inflection reminiscent of mainstream heavyweights like Murakami or Ishiguro. T. R. Napper's futures feel at once gritty and vertiginous and close-focus human in the way only the best SF can manage. Whatever roadmap he's working from, I can't wait to see where he's taking us next." Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon "It is easier to write about violence than to write about the aftermath--the grief, the guilt, the long-held trauma. It's easier to write about the shouted argument than the taut silence which follows it. It's easier to write about dreamlike unreality than it is to invest a reader in the mundane and the everyday. And yet the stories within Neon Leviathan balance all these competing demands with a deft and masterful hand." Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time "Heartbreaking... it evokes the depth of Chinese history, the successive wars, the poetry that expresses both the love of the landscape and the pain of the soldier leaving home, perhaps never to return." (for Dark on a Darkling Earth) Lois Tilton, Locus Magazine "T. R. Napper's cyberpunk story is a standout [in the collection], featuring a download with the tension of a high-speed chase" (for Twelve Minutes to Vinh Quang) Publisher's Weekly "The story is by turns blackly funny, speculatively impressive, and bleakly moving." (for A Strange Loop) Rich Horton, Locus Magazine "Wonderfully strange" (for An Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extra-Terrestrial Betting Markets) Sci Fi Review "Darkly gonzoid" (for An Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extra-Terrestrial Betting Markets) Lois Tilton, Locus Magazine "Thrilling and Moving" (for Ghosts of a Neon God) Rocket Stack Rank "The whole reads like a fever dream" (for Great Buddhist Monk Beat Down) Tangent Online
Baltimore Noir
Robert Ward,Jack Bludis,Rob Hiaasen
Author : Robert Ward,Jack Bludis,Rob Hiaasen
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070190
Baltimore Noir by Robert Ward,Jack Bludis,Rob Hiaasen Pdf
This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland’s Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more. As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton agent. It’s also where Zelda Fitzgerald came for psychiatric treatment. In this sterling collection of noir fiction, some of Baltimore’s best authors “confront the full irony that is Charm City, a place where you can go from the leafy beauty of the North Side neighborhoods to the gutted ghettos of the West Side in less than twenty minutes, then find your way to the revamped Inner Harbor in another ten” (Laura Lippman, from the introduction). Baltimore Noir includes brand-new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.
Magnus Nights
Bryn Smith
Author : Bryn Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645084468
Magnus Nights by Bryn Smith Pdf
A gritty sci-fi noir which crackles with sharp writing and whiplash pacing. Synopsis: Outgunned, outnumbered, and the clock's ticking. Police are being gunned down in the streets, incinerated by advanced weapons that no criminal should have. Detective Constable Craddock and Detective Sergeant Augustine of Taskforce Bloodhound must find the source of the weapons at any cost. But there are powerful forces who benefit from the chaos. A soldier without an enemy. An executive with everything to lose. A gangster who smells opportunity. A shadowy figure after more than money. And it may be too late to stop them.