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Great Noir Posters: Erotic licence

The Ghost Ship (1943)
I Love Trouble (1948)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The-Enforcer (1951)
The Lady From Shanghai (1951)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Party Girl (1958)

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Tony D'AmbraPosted on December 5, 2010Format GalleryCategories Lobby, PostersTags film noir3 Comments on Great Noir Posters: Erotic licence

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A crash course in film noir

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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!

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