Eddie Muller
Author of Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
About the Author
Image credit: By Joe Mabel - photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=866091
Series
Works by Eddie Muller
The art of noir : the posters and graphics from the classic era of film noir (2002) 104 copies, 1 review
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir (Turner Classic Movies) (2023) 22 copies
Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey (Turner Classic Movies) (2023) 10 copies, 1 review
Noir City Annual No. 15 3 copies
NOIR CITY Magazine #37 2 copies
Noir city 2 copies
NOIR CITY Magazine #1 1 copy
Associated Works
Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds (2015) — Contributor — 42 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1958-10-15
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Education
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Occupations
- film critic
television host
novelist
journalist - Organizations
- Film Noir Foundation
- Short biography
- Eddie Muller is a film critic and writer, specializing in film noir. James Ellroy has called him "The Czar of Noir."
Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. He serves as the host and introducer of Turner Classic Movies's weekly Noir Alley movie series, and is co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival. He also provides wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs.
His period crime novel The Distance (2002) was named the Best First Novel of the Year by the Private Eye Writers of America.
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 5
- Members
- 1,156
- Popularity
- #22,231
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 34
- ISBNs
- 49
- Languages
- 2
- Favorited
- 2
Premise/plot: Kitty Feral is missing--literally and figuratively--her friend and companion Mitch the Mutt with whom she solves cases. But she's solo on this one. She will be trying to track down what happened to Cora's marshmallow monkey. Can she follow the clues and solve the case?
My thoughts: I LOVED the atmosphere of this one. The narrative is fun, fun, super-fun. The illustrations are AWESOME. I think adults will probably pick up on things young readers don't. But that isn't all bad, in my opinion. It just means the narrative is layered. I do think it holds up to multiple readings. I caught things the second time around that I didn't the first time. It is very noir. Chances are most young readers will have little to no familiarity with this genre.… (more)