Skip to content

FilmsNoir.Net – all about film noir

the art of #filmnoir @filmsnoir.net | Copyright © Anthony D'Ambra 2007-2025

Top 25 Noirs
Essential Noirs
Articles & Reviews
More Noir
Contact
About

Category: Sketch Noir

Sketch Noir #2: Blood on the Moon (1948)

Share this:

Tweet
More

Email
Reddit
Pocket
Telegram
WhatsApp
Bluesky

Like Loading...

Author Tony D'AmbraPosted on September 1, 2009Format ImageCategories Articles, Films, Lobby, Sketch NoirLeave a comment on Sketch Noir #2: Blood on the Moon (1948)

Sketch Noir #1: Tread Softly Stranger (UK 1958)

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

Share this:

Tweet
More

Email
Reddit
Pocket
Telegram
WhatsApp
Bluesky

Like Loading...

Author Tony D'AmbraPosted on August 30, 2009Format ImageCategories Lobby, Sketch NoirLeave a comment on Sketch Noir #1: Tread Softly Stranger (UK 1958)

Search filmsnoir.net

Get Your Own WordPress Site

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.

Explore The Origins of Film Noir Visually
Cut to the Chase

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

Top Posts

White Heat (1949): Fission Noir
Progressive Origins of Film Noir
Noir Poets: Bruce Springsteen
Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
Jigsaw (1949): "like the last act of Hamlet"
Caged (1950): "the plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face"
Hudson, NY: Scenes from Odds Against Tomorrow Then and Now
New Edition of Film Noir eBook
Film Noir FAQ: A great new book on Film Noir
The Locket (1946): Freudian Melodrama

About
Articles
Books
Classic Stills
Contact
Essential Films Noir
Film Noir
Film Noir Cheat Sheet
Foyer
Links
Movie Reviews
Noir Directors
Noir Writers
Privacy Statement
Snap Reviews
Top 25 Films Noir
Top 25 Films Noir
What is Film Noir?
Posts
Blog Feed

Top 25 Noirs
Essential Noirs
Articles & Reviews
More Noir
Contact
About

FilmsNoir.Net – all about film noir

Search

Essential Films Noir
About
What is Film Noir?
White Heat (1949): Fission Noir
Foyer
Progressive Origins of Film Noir
Noir Poets: Bruce Springsteen
Film Noir and the Classic Hollywood Narrative
Jigsaw (1949): "like the last act of Hamlet"
Caged (1950): "the plot of our life sweats in the dark like a face"

Subscribe Subscribed
- FilmsNoir.Net - all about film noir
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

%d