Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many émigré filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, a

The pioneering, incisive, lavishly illustrated survey of noir on television—the first of its kind Noir—as a style, movement, or sensibility—has its roots

(Limelight). This bountiful anthology combines all the key early writings on film noir with many newer essays, including some published here for the first time.

Film noir_literally 'black cinema'_is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 19

This book is the first to focus on the role of European television crime drama on the international market. As a genre, the television crime drama has enjoyed a