Alain Silver, the most widely published American critic specializing in film noir studies, refers to film noir as a " cycle " and a " phenomenon ", even as he argues that it has — like certain genres — a consistent set of visual and thematic codes.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

* Kiss Me Deadly article, " Evidence of a Style ," by Alain Silver

* Alain Silver and James Ursini, David Lean and his Films, Silman-James, 1992.

* Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database, Biography by Alain Silver

Critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, in a review and analysis of the film, praised Lupino's use of shooting locations.

* John Silver is depicted in L ' ile aux tresors, a movie by Alain Berberian ; the cast includes Gerard Jugnot and Alice Taglioni.

54 Nude Honeys, Abbass, Abe Duque, Afu-Ra, Alain Chamfort, Alexis HK, Anais, Anis, Anna Karina, Anna Ternheim, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Arthur H, Asyl, Bénabar, Battles, Bernard Lavilliers, Bikini Machine, Birdy Nam Nam, Bumcello with Mazaher & Ganoub, Buzzcocks, Calexico, Cali, Calixte de Nigremont, Cariboo, Champion, Cheikha Rimitti, Christophe Mali, Clarika, CocoRosie, Coldcut, Company Scene & Track, Da Silva, Dagoba, Dani Siciliano, Daniel Darc, Deus, Diam's, Digitalism, Dionysos, Dominique A, Émilie Simon, Eths, Final Fantasy, Fredo, Hocus Pocus, Hushpuppies, Indochine Iron & Wine, Izïa, Jacques Higelin, John Lord Fonda, Joseph D ' Anvers, JR Ewing, Juliette, Justice, K ' naan, Ken Boothe, Keny Arkana, Killa Carltoon, La Grande Sophie, Le Cirque Des Mirages, Les Brats, Les Ogres de Barback, Loic Lantoine, Lo ' Jo, Louis Chedid, Massive Attack, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mansfield Tya, Marcel Kanche, Mariza, Matthew Herbert, Mauss, Melissa Mars, Mick Harvey, Mickey 3D, Mike Patton, Miossec, Modeselektor, Ms. John Soda, Pauline Croze, Plaid, PM Gaillard Sans Gêne, Poni Hoax, Psapp, Puppetmastaz, Queenadreena, Raphael, Rhesus, Rodolphe Burger, Saïan Supa Crew, Sapho, Sarah Slean, Second Sex, Sharon Jones, Skin, Smooth, Splean, Sylvain Chauveau, The Dresden Dolls, The Flaming Lips, The Spinto Band, Thee Silver Mt.

According to Alain Silver, the antique " Tio Vivo Carousel " built in 1882 in Taos, New Mexico, was the model for the carousel in the novel Ride The Pink Horse.

Alain Silver and James Ursini wrote in their book Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich ?, " Reputedly, Crawford was still incensed by Davis ' attitude on Baby Jane and did not want to be upstaged again, as Davis ' nomination for Best Actress convinced her she had been.

* After Dark, My Sweet at Film Noir of the Week by film historian Alain Silver

* Silver, Alain ( 2011 ).

* Alain Silver and James Ursini ( 2010 ) The Vampire Film ( 4th edition ) ISBN 0-87910-380-9

In the book Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style edited by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward, Robinson's performance is summed up like this:

According to film critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, the screenwriters take a hard-boiled mystery plot and combine it with " an aura of middle-class malaise and pervasive corruption to provide a motivation for Peter's alienation and fall.

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward notes: " Phantom Lady excepted, The Chase is the best cinematic equivalent of the dark, oppressive atmosphere that characterizes most of Cornell Woolrich's best fiction.

Film critic Alain Silver makes the case that even though the film's locations include bright snow cover landscapes the protagonist in the film is " typically noir.

* ASP ( film production company ), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise

* Chow wore Alain Delon sunglasses in the movie.

After the movie, Hong Kong was sold out of Alain Delon's sunglasses.

It was during the filming of Christine that Schneider fell in love with French actor Alain Delon, who co-starred in the movie.

In 1963, a movie called La Tulipe noire with actor Alain Delon was produced in France, but was not based on the novel.

The palace and its park were some of the main filming locations of Alain Resnais's 1961 movie Last Year at Marienbad.

Her thesis was written on the music in Alain Resnais's movie " L ' Amour à mort.

" It is based on Alain Delon's 1963 movie La Tulipe noire ( movie which, in spite of the title, is not based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Black Tulip ).

The book was an instant success and was made into a movie in 1966 by director René Clément, starring Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford and Alain Delon.

The movie ends with Franck asking Alain ( and presumably the viewer ), " What is your place?

* Alain Connes Official Web Site containing downloadable papers, and his book Non-commutative geometry, ISBN 0-12-185860-X.

In their book Tintin Ketje de Bruxelles ( Casterman, 2004 ISBN 2-203-01716-3 ), Daniel Justens and Alain Préaux have documented how the Syldavian language is based on Marols or Marollien, the dialect of the Marollen, a formerly working-class ( though now trendy ) quarter of Brussels.

The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.

The Swordmaster in Alain Ayrole's and Jean-Luc Masbou's French comic book De cape et de crocs portrays a colorful gentleman living on the Moon, at ease either with a sword or with a sonnet, and using both to silence those foolish enough to mock his prominent nose.

* Alain Blottière's Travel book on Siwa.

But his most popular book is probably Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings in the World ), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau.

* Prix Alain-Grandbois or Alain Grandbois Prize is awarded each year to an author for a book of poetry

* Commentary on Alain Badiou's book Metapolitics

Quoting extracts from a book by the French economist Alain Cotta, she claims that a devaluation of the franc will not bring about inflation.

In February 2010 lawyers for Barrick Gold threatened to sue the Canadian publisher Talonbooks for defamation if it proceeded with plans to publish the book Imperial Canada Inc .: Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries by Alain Deneault.

After brilliant studies, he entered in 1914 the École Normale Supérieure ( ENS ) after having been the student of Alain, a philosopher who was active in the Radical Party and who would write a deeply anti-militarist book after World War I.

Status Anxiety is a nonfiction book by Alain de Botton.

*" Voyage Autour de ma Chambre " is mentioned in British author Alain de Botton's book The Art of Travel ( 2002, ISBN 0-375-42082-7 ).

In December 2003, the newspaper La Croix made headlines after firing one of its own journalists, Alain Hertoghe, for writing a book that was allegedly damaging to the newspaper's editorial line.

La Croix justified its firing of Alain Hertoghe by claiming that the book was damaging to its reputation and to the authority of its editors, in opposition to its editorial line, and made claims questioning the professional ethics of some of the staff.

After her death, her friend and advisor, Dr. Chris Chapman completed a book about her life and the African American pioneers she had worked with and been friends with, including Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, Josephine Baker, and Matthew Henson.

He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art ( 1974 ) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 ( 1947 – 1963 ), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D ' Avino and many others.

* Interview with historian Alain Dewerpe on his book Charonne, 8 février 1962.

In the 1990s Nobel prize winner George A. Olah started to advocate the methanol economy and in 2006 he and two co-authors ( G. K. Surya Prakash and Alain Goeppert ) published a book around this theme.

Poole writes book reviews and literary and cultural essays for numerous publications, including a long obituary of Jean Baudrillard for the Guardian ,, and a critique of the work of Alain de Botton.

The contention of a Paris printing is supported by the discovery that the book owes much of its structure, and some of its content, to the Quadrilogue-invectif, a similar political work in part attacking England, by Alain Chartier.