Martin Bandyke Under Covers for January 2022: Martin interviews Eddie Muller, author of Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition).

Fri, 01/07/2022 - 1:49pm

When: January 7, 2021

The new edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City (first published in 1998) is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume.

Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.

Martin’s interview with Eddie Muller was recorded on November 18, 2021.