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- Apollo Leisure Guide: Film Noir - Dan Jardine reviews Nicholas Christopher's "Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City," and produces an enlightening essay in the process.
apolloguide.com/mov_feat0820.htm
- Bright Lights Film Journal: Film Noir and Neo-Noir - Film noir essays from the Bright Lights Film Journal.
www.brightlightsfilm.com/filmnoir.html
- Film Noir and Contemporary American Culture - A series of essays exploring the themes of film noir and their relevance to contemporary culture in the United States.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noirxx.htm
- Film Noir Reader - Alain Silver's site for two anthologies he co-edited: "Film Noir Reader" and "Film Noir Reader 2." The introduction traces the critical history of film noir, and three essays from the first book discuss "Kiss Me Deadly," "The Long Goodbye," and "The Getaway."
members.aol.com/alainsil/noir/index.htm
- Film Noir: Let's Give It a Rest - An article by Chris Fujiwara, special to Britannica.com, that claims that Film Noir is "a loose, approximate convenience of classification."
users.primushost.com/~csf/filmnoirrest.htm
- High Heels on Wet Pavement - Essay from Michael Mills' The Palace examines the role of the femme fatale in film noir and how the archetype changed over time.
www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir/index.html
- James M. Cain: The Prince of Darkness - William Preston Robertson on hard-boiled writer James M. Cain's novels vs. the film noirs that were made from them.
film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,472454,00.html
- Night of the Soul - Popular culture essay on the origins of film noir. Appendix includes references to seminal Borde-Chaumeton article on film noir as well as a lengthy filmography.
library.calumet.purdue.edu/nitesoul.htm
- No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays - A Berkeley student's thesis on the ladies of film noir. Very interesting.
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/noir
- Richard Widmark: The Face of Film Noir - Brian W. Fairbanks examines Richard Widmark's contributions to film noir, beginning with "Kiss of Death" in 1947.
www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/widmark.html
- Some Notes on Noir and Hard-Boiled - A short essay on some of the aspects of noir and hard-boiled fiction and film.
www.clannails.org/loren/noir.html
- Ten Shades of Noir - Images Journal #2 selects the ten best noir films, including "The Big Heat," "The Big Sleep," "Double Indemnity," and "Force of Evil."
www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm
- The Noir Connection - An essay describing film noir and the influence of German expressionism. Also a bibliography, filmography, and trivia quiz.
www.german-way.com/german/noir.html
- The Shadows of Film Noir - Brian W. Fairbanks examines the film noir's origins and recent revival.
www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/Shadows1.html
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