This collection of short fiction expands on the world of a groundbreaking achievement in storytelling: Rockstar Games' interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire. 1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims. With original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories breathes new life into a time-honored American tradition, in an exciting anthology that will appeal to fans of suspense and gamers everywhere.

Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

Full Coverage OF L.A. Noire: Celebrating the launch of an enhanced L.A. Noire for a new generation with this indispensable guide providing analysis and strategy for the latest versions, including: - New Collectibles and Their Locations - Updated Achievements & Trophies - Brand New Control Schemes, Including VR and Nintendo Switch, with Touch & Gesture Commands The Complete Experience: Collected in one place for the very first time, we provide in-depth coverage of L.A. Noire in its entirety, including every additional case and all new collectibles! The VR Case Files: Each of the seven select cases featured in L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files is revealed in full detail, with gameplay tips and strategies to take on the role of Cole Phelps in virtual reality. Every Mission: A complete walkthrough to rising through the ranks and solving every case with a perfect score. We'll guide you from Patrol, through the Traffic, Homicide, and Vice desks, all the way to the story's thrilling climax. City Maps: Find everything you're looking for. We identify locations for all Landmarks and Collectibles, as well as critical mission waypoints. Vehicle Showroom: Stats for all vehicles and where to find them, including the hidden cars you will not discover on your own! Discover New Items and Abilities: Find out how to get your hands on every new Detective Suit and where to find every Golden Vinyl and Novel Cover. Detective Training: This is your essential resource to collecting evidence, interrogating suspects, and using intuition to uncover the truth. Plus: coverage of all Street Crimes, Outfits, and everything you need for 100% Completion! Free eGuide Included: Mobile-friendly eGuide for strategy on the go, all optimized for a second-screen experience.

Mysterious Press presents three classic novels--"Blood on the Moon, Because the Night", and "Suicide Hill"--in one hardcover edition from the author of "L.A. Confidential".

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

This book explores the fundamental computer vision principles and state-of-the-art algorithms used to create cutting-edge visual effects for movies and television. It describes classical computer vision algorithms and recent developments, features more than 200 original images, and contains in-depth interviews with Hollywood visual effects artists that tie the mathematical concepts to real-world filmmaking.