Voices in the Dark The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir

The American film noir, the genre that focused on urban crime and corruption in the 1940's and 1950's, exhibits the greatest amount of narrative experimentation in the modern American cinema. Spurred by postwar disillusionment, cold war anxieties, and changing social circumstances, these films revealed the dark side of American life and created unique narrative structures to speak of that darkness.Telotte, J. P. is the author of 'Voices in the Dark The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir', published 1988 under ISBN 9780252060564 and ISBN 0252060563.