This text identifies a handful of plot elements that consistently recur within film noir and analyses in depth the memorable pictures that, while being vivid pr

In the wake of the remarkable success of Film Noir Reader, this new collection further explores a genre of limitless fascination -- and one that continues to in

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In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (193

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