About the Author

ALAIN SILVER (Los Angeles, CA) is the co-editor of the Film Noir Reader series and co-writer of The Noir Style and L.A. Noir, as well as The Samurai Film and Raymond Chandler s Los Angeles. His commentaries may be heard and seen on numerous DVDs, including Murder, My Sweet and Kiss Me Deadly. He is a writer/producer/director in independent feature productions. With Alain Silver, JAMES URSINI (Los Angeles, CA) has co-written studies of David Lean, Robert Aldrich, and Roger Corman and on such genres as the vampire film, the zombie film, and most recently American neo-noir. He has also done numerous DVD commentaries on classic film noir DVDs such as Out of the Past, Kiss of Death, and Ride the Pink Horse. He recently completed his first neo-noir feature film.