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This compact history of Hollywood noir films from the 1940s through today discusses the nature of the genre and how it's changed over time, then moves to the analysis of specific movies. Movies are grouped into three subsets—detective films, lost-man films, and femme-fatale films—across the variant forms of noir, neo-noir, and revisionary noir. The earliest film discussed is The Maltese Falcon (1941)...Log In or Sign Up to Read More