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Alain Silver is a US film producer, music producer, film reviewer, film historian, and writer on film topics, especially film noir and horror films.
Career
Education
Silver graduated from UCLA with degrees in film production and critical studies.Film Production
Silver began his production career working as assistant director on movies such as Every Which Way But Loose, The Manitou, and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training and on television series such as Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. In 1981, Silver began working at the level of production manager and associate producer. Since 1987, Silver has been executive or supervising producer on a number of movies. Silver has also produced nine independent features, two documentaries, music videos, and segments for the TV reality series America's Most Wanted and I, Survived.Silver has given lectures on production and moderated panels for Directors Guild of America meetings and other forums. He has also produced a number of soundtrack albums for Citadel Records and Bay Cities Music. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West.
Writing
Silver has written and edited twenty books, mostly with James Ursini or Elizabeth Ward, including The Noir Style; L.A. Noir; Film Noir Readers 1, 2, 3 and 4; Gangster Film Reader; Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles; The Samurai Film; Horror Film Reader; Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style; David Lean and his Films; What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich; More Things than Are Dreamt Of; The Vampire Film; Roger Corman: Metaphysics on a Shoestring; Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra, and Katharine Hepburn for the Taschen Icon series; The Film Director's Team; and Film Budgeting. Silver also reviews films and has written numerous articles on Raymond Chandler, samurai cinema, film noir, vampire films, and other topics on film history and production. He has also provided audio and video commentary on DVD versions of classic period film noir and gangster films, as part of the "extra" features often included with DVD releases of movies.External links
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