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Film noir was discovered and named by two French film critics in 1946. Film noir ("black film") refers to the dark or shadowed look and mood of an American film style largely influenced by German and Austrian directors. Plots center on events that often occur at night, and the characters tend to be cynical and disillusioned, but usually likeable. The male protagonist faces a moral dilemma or threat and there is usually an alluring, sassy, dangerous woman. The dialog tends to be crisp and often witty.
These films evolved in the 1940s and lasted in a classic period until about 1960.
Essays, reviews, and examinations of the Film Noir genre and style.
Links to categories devoted to directors whose body of work included film noir movies.
Sites that focus on French, British, Japanese and other foreign films influenced by the Classic American Film Noir.
Ever since French critics discovered and named "film noir," it has been a stylistic force in many foreign films. If they fuse noir with their own culture's quirks, the results can be arresting.
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Genre that boasts a prefix, as filmmakers have increasingly transposed those atmospheric elements typical of one of the cinema's favorite genres from their original genesis in post-war angst to the stressed-out present day, so successfully as to banish any sense of the hybrid.
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Links to categories for specific film noir movies.
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