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Offscreen Com: Noir Essays

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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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