Keywords: Film noir, social commentary, postwar America, cinematic style, femme fatale, hard-boiled detective, Cold War, moral ambiguity.

In- gress are associated with noir, as are most of the early stead of looking for the essential features of a group of volumes in the British Film Institute "Film Classics" films, I shall try to …

In his contribution to Ursini and Silver‟s 1996 Film Noir Reader, Erickson sets out to define the concept of “neo-noir” cinema from three different points of view.

Film noir is not a genre (as Raymond Durgnat has helpfully pointed out over the objections of Higham and Greenber€s Hollywood in the Forties). It is not defined, as are the western and …

While it’s true that Nolan hasn’t made a “true” or “pure” noir since his first two films, what Nolan sees as the es-sence of film noir—everyday fears placed into tightly compressed …

What is film noir? Most of the authors, studying films, agree on the sources of film noir. It is based on German Expressionism, pre-code Hollywood movies1, French poetic realism, and the pulp …

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