Mike Hammer is one of the most popular film noir detectives in history, and he has been adapted into several films and a popular TV show starring Stacy Keach. Arguably, the best movie featuring the ...

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade talking to another man in the final scene of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Image via Warner Bros. The detective noir serves as the heart and soul of the classic film noir ...

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

If you’re a fan of classic films, particularly the ones about gumshoes and femmes fatales, you’ll be glad to know that Noir Nights are returning to New Bedford Art Museum. Following last year’s ...

The absolute greatest performances in neo-noir movies include turns from Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dan Hedaya.

Foreword--Brooks McNamara : master of the archive, or What really matters / Don B. Wilmeth -- "Band of up to a hundred Skomorokhi" : rethinking Stoglav 41:19 / John Wesley Hill -- Who Was Robert ...

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 ...