While those movies are certainly examples of noir, the genre is more expansive than that, identified by morally gray protagonists, dark aesthetics, and an overall cynical view of the world.

In 1949, when White Heat was released, films were not granted the same freedoms of expression as their Pre-code ...

When his style was adapted to crime stories in the late 1920s and '30s, most successfully for writers such as Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler, the seeds of noir were planted.

Three examples of the film noir revival have reached video in recent weeks: ”The Two Jakes” on Feb. 28, ”After Dark, My Sweet” on March 7 and ”The Hot Spot” on Thursday.

Detective stories are one of the most frequent forms of film noir. 1941's The Maltese Falcon and 1946's The Big Sleep have become the flagship examples of film noir, as the detective story allows ...

Clocks often appear in film noir, such as this scene from the 1946 movie “The Stranger” with Orson Welles and Loretta Young. ... often cited as one of the greatest examples of film noir.

In many ways, L.A. Confidential is a paradigmatic example of neo-noir, focusing as it does on the perilous world of Hollywood and the way that police corruption and Hollywood can dovetail.

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs will host Guillermo Del Toro showing an expanded B&W 'Nightmare Alley,' along with '40s classics.

The slick and dynamic style of film noir dominated the big screen from the early 1940s until the late 1950s, setting the tone for what most audiences know as chiaroscuro lighting.

Frequently cited as an example of when film noir, to appropriate a TV idiom, “jumped the shark,” Kiss Me Deadly long ago overcame its initial bad press to become one of the most beloved and ...