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Mike Hammer is one of the most popular film noir detectives in history, and he has been adapted into several films and a popular TV show starring Stacy Keach. Arguably, the best movie featuring the ...

Film noir is a genre and style of filmmaking that refers to 1940s and 1950s crime dramas such as The Third Man and White Heat. The genre emerged in the United States during the Great Depression and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1972, filmmaker Paul Schrader famously declared Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil to be film noir’s “epitaph.” The 1958 film is now generally considered the last true noir and a way to mark the period ...

The film noir genre reached its peak of popularity during the 1940s with classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Even though the 1940s are considered to be the height of the ...

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 ...