The film noir genre is an undoubtedly unique one, as itâ s perhaps the only genre that has a specific period during which it ...

Virginia Supreme Court case in 1967. So it was radical for movie audiences of the 1950s to see a Japanese man romantically embrace a white woman and not suffer any consequences. Fuller went ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the 1940s.

And classic noir is usually defined as films made between 1941 and the late 1950s, and the term literally means black film. And that darkness comes not not just from the visual look, but also from ...