Film Soleil

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This is a guide to the reconfiguration of film noir, featuring films like Sexy Beast, Reservoir Dogs and Blood Simple. Film noir is a genre of mid-century black and white urban crime thrillers populated by mysterious women and tortured, hard-bitten PIs. Film soleil is its adaptation for late-century tastes, using as its most common setting sun-beaten highways cutting mercilessly through the desert, its women in cowboy boots, and its men deranged by their biological drives.