Overkill: The Rise and Fall of Thriller Cinema

by Bill Mesce Jr.

The work examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 1930s when it was primarily bottom-of-the-bill fodder, through its maturity in the World War II years and noir-breeding 1950s, its commercial and critical ascendancy in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally its subsequent box office dominance in the age of the blockbuster.

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Bill Mesce, Jr. is an award-winning author and playwright, as well as a screenwriter.