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Recent Posts
- Imperfect: Impressive New Indie Neo-Noir
- Cinematic Cities: Taxi to Nowhere
- So Dark the Night (1946): The Split Personality
- Film Noir Influences: The Raveonettes – Attack Of The Ghost Riders
- Film Noir Summary Reviews: Night Moves – From Paris to LA via Iverstown
- Deception (1946): Expressionist Noir Melodrama
- New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
- The House on 92nd Street (1945): Real Drama with a Solemn Purpose
- The Night Shift: Scene of the Crime
- At the Crossroads: Blind Alley (1939) and 13 East Street (UK 1952)
- Trouble Is My Business: Help Fund a Film Noir
- Film Noir Influences: Black Amour
- Mystery Streets: My Own Private Noir
- The Dark Clowns
- Film Noir Influences: Force Of Evil’s Black Empire
- The Noir Art of John Alton: The People Against O’Hara (1951)
- Future Noir: 21st Century Dubai
- Cinematic Cities: Shanghai (1934)
- New Noir Video: “Tony Mars A Case of Murphy’s Law”
- The New Killers
Books Archive
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New Book – Film Noir: The Directors
Posted on April 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsAnother book on film noir directors.... -
Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsAmerican films noir from the classic cycle have essentially the same narrative structure as other Hollywood movies, and that the entertainment value of a movie lies in the delicate balancing of pleasure and anxiety. -
New Books on Noir: From Screwball to Dragnet
Posted on September 2, 2011 | 2 CommentsTV Noir: The Twentieth Century by Ray Starman and Screwball Comedy and Film Noir: An Analysis of Their Imagery and Character Kinship by Thomas C. Renzi... -
Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood – James Ursini’s new book
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 4 CommentsNoted film noir authority and writer James Ursini has just published a new book, Directors on the Edge: Outliers in Hollywood, analysing the work of five émigré b-noir directors... -
“Film noir is like a Harley-Davidson”
Posted on June 29, 2011 | 2 Comments"film noir is like a Harley-Davidson: you know right away what it is... the object being only the synecdoche of a continent, a history and a civilization…” -
Film Noir: Cinema as Mourning
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No CommentsOffice memorandum, Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager. Los Angeles, July 16th, 1938. Dear Keyes: I suppose you'll call this a confession when you hear it. I don't like the word confession... -
Noir Digest: Bad Girls Behind Locked Doors
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThey stopped making noir movies over 60 years ago, but the books on film noir keep on coming... and capsule reviews of four classic noirs -
Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 CommentsJonathan Auerbach, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and regular presenter at film noir screenings, has just published his much anticipated book on film noir, Dark Borders... -
Fate: “a belly-laugh on Olympus”
Posted on December 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe gods, like most other practical jokers, have a habit of repeating themselves too often -
James Gunn’s ‘Deadlier than the Male’: Psychology of the Femme-Fatale
Posted on December 8, 2010 | 2 CommentsHelen Brent had the best-looking legs...
