The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

In fact, revenge is a common plot element in film noir, a genre associated primarily with the 1940s and 1950s. One particular ...

Classic film noir is a key part of the history of Hollywood, and it is one of the most notable postwar genres. However, the noir sensibility would prove to be even more enduring, and from the ...

Masahiro Shinoda's film noir Pale Flower shares a lot in common with Michael Mann's crime dramas, Heat and Thief.

Known for her role in the infamous O.J. Simpson trial, Clark studied trial transcripts and the lurid press coverage and ...

Few dramas hit like a well-crafted private eye story. It was the basis for the bulk of the film noir genre for a reason. While New York, and Chicago, Miami, Detroit, and some others, have seen ...