Offscreen Com: Noir Essays

The film site Offscreen.com has published an interesting collection of articles on film noir:

Touch of Evil: A Cognitivist Approach
Dark Tales from Hollywoodland
A Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavour: Narrative Comparisons & Contrasts Between the Noir Heist Film An analysis comparing the narrative structures of two seminal noir heist films, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing.
Film Noir: A Study in Narrative Openings, Part 1
Film Noir: A Study in Narrative Openings, Part 2
Lost in the Dark: The Elusive Film Noir
The Third Man: Citerion DVD Review

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Film Noir: Explore the dark side
The Origins of Film Noir: A cash course in film noir its origins and influences

This primer on classic film noir crystallizes a set of visual, narrative, and thematic elements already present in European movements and in American hard‑boiled fiction, then refracts them through postwar U.S. anxieties about crime, gender, and social change. The modules effectively give you a mini‑syllabus: starting from noir, out to its literary and cinematic antecedents, then forward to its legacy in neo‑noir and contemporary art cinema.

The Roots of Film Noir
Pronto!

Explore The Origins of Film Noir Visually
Cut to the Chase

Film Noir: On the Wrong Side of the Street
A hard-boiled take

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