"Examines how African-American as well as international films deploy film noir techniques in ways that encourage philosophical reflection. Combines philosophy,

A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective down on his luck

This book reveals the ways in which American film noir explore the declining credibility of individuals as causal centers of agency, and how we live with the ac

Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and lig

Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and ’50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style