Rooted in German Expressionism and born out of popular hardboiled crime fiction, the film noir genre combines crime, mystery, ...

From Old Hollywood classics like The Third Man to neo-noir gems like Chinatown, these film noirs embody the essence and ...

From neo-noir classics to satirical comedies from the 1940s, here are Anthony Bourdain's top 10 favorite films.

During the 1940s, the film noir genre reigned superior and gave audiences memorable classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Gaslight, and Out of the Past. By the 1960s, the genre had been revitalized ...

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

"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 ...