When you think of film noir movies, you may assume they’re predominantly American. While this isn’t true, it’s a fact that many American film noir movies have become cult classics, with some becoming ...

In the peak American film noir years from 1940 to 1960, an astonishing number of these movies took place in the scenic west coast city of San Francisco. Fandor’s new video, “Shadows In The Fog: ...

'Body and Soul,' 'Shadow of a Doubt' and 'Dead Reckoning' are among a dozen classic or obscure films programmed over a four-day weekend at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Like the Hollywood-based ...

Between January and October this year, the Film Noir Foundation programmed and presented its annual series of Noir City film festivals in several US cities: Oakland, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los ...

The moral universe of film noir. As the discussion of the essence or nature of film noir in the books from Conard and Irwin indicates, critics seeking a unifying definition of noir as a genre have ...

Rick Blaine, the iconic character from the classic film Casablanca, has left an indelible mark on American cinema ...

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 30, No. 1 (2024), pp. 203-226 (24 pages) This essay looks at some of the American film noir that focus on traumatized veterans in the ...

Edward Hopper is often considered part the Ashcan School, an artistic movement founded by Robert Henri – one of Hopper’s instructors at the New York School of Art and Design. The Ashcan artists ...