Lloyd Fonvielle: Film Noir Revisited

Lloyd Fonvielle on his mardecortesbaja.com blog has posted a concise and penetrating survey of film noir and how it informed the cinema of the 1960’s Film Noir Revisited:

Film noir had a beginning in the global dislocations and moral derangement of WWII, and an end in the open social and political critiques of the Sixties.  There had never been anything quite like film noir before WWII, and there has never been anything quite like it since the Sixties.  It was, and remains, a distinct tradition.