Richard Deming was een productieve misdaadschrijver wiens werk zich uitstrekte van pulpbladen uit de late jaren veertig tot vroege pocketmagazines uit de jaren tachtig. Hij wordt vooral herinnerd als een belangrijke medewerker van Manhunt en Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkte zich door degelijk en betrouwbaar vakmanschap, waarmee hij lezers spannende misdaadverhalen bood. Later in zijn carrière schreef hij ook populaire non-fictieboeken.
Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil, the story of a corrupt police chief in a small town on the Mexican-American border, starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, is widely recognised as one of the greatest noir films of Classical Hollywood cinema. Richard Deming's study of the film considers it as an outstanding example of the noir genre and explores its complex relationship to its source novel, Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. He traces the film's production history, and provides an insightful close analysis of its key scenes, including its famous opening sequence, a single take in which the camera follows a booby-trapped car on its journey through city streets and across the border.
This replica of the June 1953 MANHUNT digest magazine showcases a collection of thrilling stories from notable authors in the crime and mystery genre. Featuring works like "Far Cry" by Henry Kane and "Hot-Rock Rumble" by Richard S. Prather, it presents a diverse array of gripping narratives, including tales of loyalty, deception, and murder. Each story offers a unique glimpse into the darker aspects of human nature, making it a fascinating read for fans of classic pulp fiction.
"Imbued with a deep sensitivity for its subjects, and a light touch of memoir that contends with Deming's own struggles with loneliness, THIS EXQUISITE LONELINESS is a singular meditation on the ways that loneliness pervades the human condition, as well as an assertion of the ways in which we might allow our own loneliness to fuel our creative fires. Loneliness is not a feeling to which we readily admit. It is stigmatized, freighted with shame and fear, easy to dismiss as mere emotional neediness. Poet, art critic, and literary theorist Richard Deming contends that to see loneliness this way is to misunderstand it. In THIS EXQUISITE LONELINESS, Deming turns an eye towards that unwelcome feeling, both in his own life and art, and in the lives and the work of six groundbreaking figures. From Melanie Klein's contributions to psychoanalysis and the seminal literature of Zora Neale Hurston to the inventive philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin, and from Walker Evans' photography of urban alienation and Egon Scheile's avant-garde paintings to the ethical underpinnings of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, Deming finds a common thread: loneliness served as fuel for an intense creative desire that forged some of the most original and innovative art and writing of the twentieth century. From the "cosmic loneliness" that permeated the life of Zora Neale Hurston to the profound detachment that dogged Rod Serling at the height of his fame, loneliness has long been a complex and slippery subject, as lush and fruitful as it is searingly painful"-- Provided by publisher
