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 ...

Marked by stark visual contrasts, chiaroscuro lighting, and sharp angles pioneered in German expressionism, noir plunges the viewer into morally gray situations in which good may triumph, but at a ...

The New Hollywood Movement sparked a significant creative shift in American cinema, introducing movie fans to an abundance of innovative stories and revitalized genres, specifically the modern ...