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 the Encyclopedia; Film Noir the Directors; 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 provided audio and video commentary on DVD versions of over a score of classic period film noir and gangster films as part of the "extra" features often included with DVD releases of movies such as Call Northside 777, The Dark Corner, Double Indemnity, Panic in the Streets, The Street with No Name and Thieves' Highway. He has done film noir visual presentations on the long take for Hillsdale College and "A Noir Tour of L.A." at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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.
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