Film noir may seem a familiar term 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 this introduction is not so much an account of
what film noir is, but more 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.Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' With
this sharply focused question active throughout the book, students
will benefit from an introductory text designed to provide a
sophisticated treatment of the problems inherent in the category.
This will be the first critical introduction to film noir which
takes into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties
of straightforward definition and classification.
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