The ABC's of Film Noir

This book helps teach the important terms and lessons gained from film noir. But what is Film Noir?Film Noir is a movie genre retroactively named by the French after World War II because they weren't getting any American films during that time. They realized that it seemed the movies being made during that time were thematically and visually dark, hence "noir" which means "black" in French. American filmmakers, inspired by the popularity of hardboiled detective novels written during...
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This book helps teach the important terms and lessons gained from film noir. But what is Film Noir?Film Noir is a movie genre retroactively named by the French after World War II because they weren't getting any American films during that time. They realized that it seemed the movies being made during that time were thematically and visually dark, hence "noir" which means "black" in French. American filmmakers, inspired by the popularity of hardboiled detective novels written during the Depression and World War II by people like Dashiell Hammett, who wrote the Maltese Falcon, and Raymond Chandler who wrote The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity.