James Ursini

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| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

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| years_active = 1973–present

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| M.A., Theater Arts, UCLA

| Doctorate, Film, UCLA, 1975

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| genre = Documentaries on Film noir

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James Ursini (born May 10, 1947) is an American writer living in Los Angeles, and an educator.

Biography

Born on May 10, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ursini received his master's degree in Theater Arts and a Doctorate in Film in 1975 from UCLA.

He has written and/or edited over a dozen books—most with Alain Silver and two with Dominique Mainon (The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen and Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies). He is noted for his work on film noir with Alain Silver (The Noir Style, The Film Noir Reader series, Film Noir, LA Noir, etc.) He has also done director studies on David Lean, Robert Aldrich, Preston Sturges,{{cite book |title=The Famous Life & Times of Preston Sturges: An American Dreamer |last=Ursini |first=James |year=1973 |publisher=Curtis Books |location=New York |edition=mass market paperback }} and Roger Corman and numerous DVD commentaries for Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, and The Criterion Collection. Books forthcoming in 2024 are From the Moment They Met It Was Murder, Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (Running Press/TCM){{Cite book |url= https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alain-silver/from-the-moment-they-met-it-was-murder/9780762484935/?lens=running-press/ |title=From the Moment They Met It Was Murder |date=February 13, 2023 |isbn=978-0-7624-8493-5 |last1=Silver |first1=Alain |last2=Ursini |first2=James |publisher=Running Press }} and The Films of David Lean (3rd edition, Pendragon Books).