Thank heaven for the ecumenical definition of film noir used by the editors the fourth and fattest edition of The Film Noir Encyclopedia. The compendium is venerable—30 years and counting—but the ...

The 2000s saw lots of neo-noir movies released into theaters, and some of these are just as good as anything from the past of ...

The moral universe of film noir. As the discussion of the essence or nature of film noir in the books from Conard and Irwin indicates, critics seeking a unifying definition of noir as a genre have ...