No Daylight in That Face
Adventures in Film Noir
$33.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
Out of print for years—now retitled and expanded—this new edition of Gifford’s celebrated handbook unlocks the secrets of noir movies and their relevance today.
For a tour of noir cinema, No Daylight in That Face is the perfect companion, and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the menacing, moody, and oftentimes violent underbelly of this dark movie genre that occupies a favorite niche in American popular culture.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644285633 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644285630 |
| Author: | Barry Gifford |
| Publisher: | Rare Bird Books |
| Imprint: | Rare Bird Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“The book offers a master class in blunt language and precise thinking, and the reviews are far from formulaic.” * Alta *
“Gifford knows his noir. The essays are better than some of the films he writes about.” – Elmore Leonard
Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels (one of which was adapted into David Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film Wild at Heart). Gifford has been the recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, The American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
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