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 …

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 …

Noir's queer victims and villains served several purposes in these films. They indicated a world in which the. vulnerable sharpshooter done in by a femme fatale. (1949), which featured gay …

This is clearly what Godard set out to do in Breathless, with the familiar theme being fugitive lovers, a staple of film noir. The mother of all love-on-the-run movies, Gun Crazy, had as much …

The short history of 3-D noir is one that has been buried in the wreckage of a short-lived technology that came and went with shocking speed in the early 1950s. As a result, there are …

Noir lighting is "low-key." The ratio of key to fill light is great, creating areas of high contrast and rich, black shadows.