In the 1940s and 1950s, film noir became arguably Hollywood's most popular film genre, with crime dramas and thrillers adding darkness to the already popular gangster genre. While gangster movies were ...

An under-the-radar film noir from the 1940s has what it easily one of the most unforgettable villains in the history of the genre. Too Late for Tearswas a box office bomb upon its theatrical release ...

Austin is a list writer for Collider, focusing on television. Austin graduated from Florida International University with a degree in English Literature, where he assisted with teaching several film ...

During the Great Depression, the popularity of pulp fiction and detective novels took the United States by storm, leading to the cultivation and rise of the classic film noir genre that audiences ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

"This book is part of a research project on cinematic representations of artworks at the School of Arts, University College, Ghent, Belgium."--Colophon. Contents Part one. Introduction: art and ...

Whether it’s the hardboiled private eye down on his luck or the beautiful but badhearted femme fatale, neo-noir tropes revive the era of film noir. But what exactly is neo-noir, and how does it both ...

REUTERS - Husky-voiced blonde Lizabeth Scott, who played the femme fatale in numerous film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s alongside leading men including Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster and ...

‘Film noir’ is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood’s classic film noir ...