Film noir emerged as a direct result of the national mood of disillusionment that plagued the United States following the Great Depression and the start of World War II. Influenced by European ...

During the 1940s and 1950s, the film noir genre dominated the box office with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and Sunset Boulevard, making it one of the most ...

The "Fabulous Fifties" weren't great, except perhaps for right-wing straight WASP men. Independent women, out LGBTs, racial, ethnic, religious minorities didn't thrive. "Red Scare" congressional witch ...

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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 ...

Let’s start with a few seminal noirs, the basics you’ll want to hit to understand the genre and its conventions. More than a decade after making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles further secured his status ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s not often that a mere movie critic can somehow create a genuine holiday, but that’s exactly what happened when writer Marya E. Gates coined “Noirvember” over a ...