Film noir was one of the most popular movie genres in the 1940s and 1950s, and some of the most important films in this genre remain known as masterpieces to this day. The genre drew on German ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

As the '50s came to a close, so too did the classic period of noir. The indefinable genre that was born out of hardboiled detective stories and the arch visuals of German expressionism provided dozens ...

Let’s start with a few seminal noirs, the basics you’ll want to hit to understand the genre and its conventions. More than a decade after making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles further secured his status ...