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STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS: Many film scholars and critics have commented on the inadequacy of roles for women in American cinema in recent ...

Some have tried to claim that the 1941 version The Maltese Falcon was the first film noir; but while Falcon certainly influenced subsequen...

Jean Arthur as Mary Smith in "Easy Living" (1937) delivers her lines with aplomb — something quite amazing given how insecure sh...

"Mad Men" Season 7's theme: Expanding some on a comment he made when the show's key art was released, Weiner says, "[...

DAVID GOODIS: A LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE: Finally available in English in the United States! If you're a fan of classic noir fiction, gra...

Hollywood and Los Angeles after World War II: In the heyday of film noir, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, the utopian aspirations that ...

-I think the big social novel is a crime novel. (James) Ellroy writes social novels, Dennis Lehane writes social novels. (George) Pelecano...