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 ...

The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir genre, which was initially generated from the pivotal rise of hardboiled crime novels and pulp fiction during the 1930s. Iconic ...

The film noir genre is a staple of classic cinema that reached its pinnacle point of popularity during the 1940s with iconic classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Double Indemnity. Rooted in ...

Classic Hollywood has a somewhat unearned reputation for being easy, cheerful viewing, full of giddy musicals and sweet love stories. Film noir of the 1940s and ‘50s cut right through these ...

Fargo, Pulp Fiction, and Casino are all among the very best crime movies released since Francis Ford Coppola's classic The ...

Deutsch, James I. 2021. [Book review] "I Died a Million Times: Gangster Noir in Midcentury America." Choice: Scholarly Reviews for Academic Libraries, 59, (3), 457–458.