Film Noir

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Film noir may seem a familiar genre to many, with its use of a complex narrative structure, flashbacks and voiceover narration, and with such archetypal characterisations as the femme fatale and private eye. But Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' The first critical introduction to take into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of its straightforward definition and classification, Film Noir is not just an account of what film noir is, but also an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a particular group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.