Foster Hirsch, a professor of Film at Brooklyn College, is the author of sixteen books on film and theatre, including Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen and Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. He lives in New York.

Martin Jackson, Cineaste "Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise...[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure." Philip French, The Observer (London) "There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch's The Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) and his Sunset Boulevard (1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context." Skyscraper, Spring 2009 "An important examination of what film noir is...The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch's academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach."

Foster Hirsch, a professor of Film at Brooklyn College, is the author of sixteen books on film and theatre, including Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen and Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. He lives in New York.

Martin Jackson, Cineaste "Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise...[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure." Philip French, The Observer (London) "There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch's The Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) and his Sunset Boulevard (1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context." Skyscraper, Spring 2009 "An important examination of what film noir is...The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch's academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach."

Foster Hirsch, a professor of Film at Brooklyn College, is the author of sixteen books on film and theatre, including Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen and Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. He lives in New York.

Martin Jackson, Cineaste "Wonderfully readable: Hirsch is clear, knowledgeable, and concise...[The Dark Side of the Screen] is a visual as well as literary pleasure." Philip French, The Observer (London) "There has been no extended work as good as Foster Hirsch's The Dark Side of the Screen, a well-written, imaginatively illustrated book that sees the brief, true heyday as between Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944) and his Sunset Boulevard (1950), but looks at the prelude and the aftermath, and sets the genre in its larger social and cultural context." Skyscraper, Spring 2009 "An important examination of what film noir is...The 264-page treatise is not a review source; rather, Hirsch's academic work delves deeply with a scholarly but not dry approach."