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Dan Jardine reviews Nicholas Christopher's "Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City," and produces an enlightening essay in the process.
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Film noir essays from the Bright Lights Film Journal.
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A series of essays exploring the themes of film noir and their relevance to contemporary culture in the United States.
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Essay from Michael Mills' The Palace examines the role of the femme fatale in film noir and how the archetype changed over time.
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Popular culture essay on the origins of film noir. Appendix includes references to seminal Borde-Chaumeton article on film noir as well as a lengthy filmography.
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A Berkeley student's thesis on the ladies of film noir. Very interesting.
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Article on writer James M. Cain's difficult relationship with Hollywood and the adaptations of his novels into film noirs.
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Brian W. Fairbanks examines Richard Widmark's contributions to film noir, beginning with "Kiss of Death" in 1947.
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Illustrated essays analyzing ten genre classics.
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An essay describing film noir and the influence of German expressionism. Also a bibliography, filmography, and trivia quiz.
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Brian W. Fairbanks examines the film noir's origins and recent revival.
