Film Noir History, Early Days: Studios Resisted, Then Embraced

Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir 'Nightmare Alley' calls back to an age when the subversive "murder mellers," or off-kilter "celluloid dirt," faced sharp criticism from censors, critics and industry execs: "We cannot send pictures overseas which show Americans as sordid people intent upon low objectives."

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965) – Senses of Cinema

Observations on film art : Film technique: Sound

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII [Street of Chance / Enter Arsene Lupin / Temptation] : Jack Hively, Ford Beebe, Irving Pichel, Merle Oberon, Ella Raines, Claire Trevor, Burgess

Cinema of Paradox. “Le Corbeau” and an Unlikely Golden Age…, by Aaron Corcos

Observations on film art : Poetics of cinema

What is Film Noir? A Brief History with Examples from Cinema

Queer villains, erotic noir, 90s pulp. 'Basic Instinct' and the backlash, rewound

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In a Lonely Place Movie Essay: Jeremy Carr on Nicholas Ray's 1950 Film