Double Indemnity

by Richard Schickel

Overview

This book discusses Double Indemnity and its status as a key film in the definition of film noir.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851702988
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/27/1992
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	5.35(w) x 7.45(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic, documentary film-maker and movie historian, who has written over thirty books, among them The Disney Version; D.W. Griffith: An American Life; Brando: A Life in Our Times; and a biography of Elia Kazan. His thirty documentaries include Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film; and Shooting War, which is about combat cameramen in World War II. He has recently completed a documentary about Martin Scorsese and a reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's classic war film, The Big One, was named one of the year's Ten Best Films by the New York Times. He has been reviewing movies for Time since 1972 and writes a monthly column, 'Film on Paper', for the Los Angeles Times Book Review.