Everyone seems to know what film noir is, but scholars and critics
cannot agree on any definition. Some go so far as to insist that
there is no such thing. What is Film Noir? claims that this
confusion arises from the fact that film noir is both a genre and a
period style, and as such is unique in the history of Hollywood.
The genre, now known as "neo-noir," continues into the present,
while the period, which began in the early 1940s, had expired by
1960. William Park surveys the various theories of film noir,
defines the genre, and explains how film noir relates to the style
and the period in which it was created. The book corrects several
common misconceptions: that film noir was an afterthought, that
Hollywood was not conscious of what it was creating, and that film
noir is too amorphous to be a genre. Park also provides a very
useful theory of genre and how it relates to film study.
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