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	Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era, (many films noir were adaptations of such novels), and may first be clearly seen in films released in the early 1940s.
		Noir turned all this on its head, creating bleak but intelligent dramas tinged with nihilism, mistrust, bleakness, paranoia and cynicism, in real-life urban settings, and using unsettling techniques such as the confessional voice-over or hero's-eye-view camerawork.
		Noir films, traditionally fl and white, tended to include dramatic shadows and stark contrast—using low-key lighting and monochrome film, typically resulting in a 10:1 ratio of dark to light, rather than the more typical 3:1 ratio.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir (1746 words)

	Film Noir - Films
		Film noir is a distinct branch, sub-genre or offshoot of the crime/gangster and detective/mystery sagas from the 1930s (i.e., Little Caesar (1930), Public Enemy (1931) and Scarface (1932)), but very different in tone and characterization.
		Noirs were rooted in German Expressionism of the 1920s and 1930s, such as in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) or Fritz Lang's M (1931), and in the French sound films of the 30s.
		The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict.
	www.filmsite.org /filmnoir.html (1857 words)

	Anime Tempy
		To create a general summary of the plot, Noir is about a highschool student named Kirika in search of her true identity.
		Noir is the story of four women trying to find their place in their life.
		Noir is the sparsely told tale of two female assassins, set not so much in our world as on its dark underbelly.
	www.animetempy.com /reviews/LMNO/noir.htm (2129 words)

	AnimeNfo.Com : Anime : Noir
		Noir is an anime set in the near future.
		Mireille is a young girl, a lone-wolf type who happens to be one of the most talented assassins in the underworld.
		Noir will emphasize plot and story, rather than flashy gunfight sequences and big explosions.
	www.animenfo.com /animetitle,290,kjccvj,noir.html (125 words)

	NeoNoir
		The sense that 'noir' created in the 70s and 80s was a 'retro' and nostalgic avoidance of contemporary experience has been encouraged by the often-cited essay, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in which Frederic Jameson assigns to film noir a central role in the vocabulary of commercialized postmodernism.
		The contemporary refashioning of noir themes is a manifestation of the flexibility and responsiveness to social change that have characterised noir from its inception and of the continued vitality of the form.
		The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognisable elements of 'the noir vision', most importantly the moral ambivalence of the protagonist and his (or in neo-noir often her) ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/NeoNoir.html (1081 words)

	The Incredible World of Bowling Noir: An Essay by William Preston Robertson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		This is that sub- of sub-genres, the rarest of the rare, the hardest of the boiled: bowling noir.
		Thus, film noirs were noteworthy for vertiginous angles and kinetic camera usage, claustrophobic set designs, a theatrical use of light and shadow; for presentations of the city as "evil" and likewise strong, independent women.
		The noir actors were often as deadpan and terse as the cinematography was flamboyant.
	members.aol.com /bobbuttman/bowlingnoir/bowlingnoir.htm (1053 words)

	EX: Review - Anime -
		The introductory narration of each episode offers this interpretation: Noir is an ancient title bestowed upon two maidens that reign over death, their flened hands protecting the peace of the newborns.
		However, the story goes into full swing by episode 10 with the introduction of an assassin named Chloe, who declares herself the "True Noir." Chloe and her mentor Altena add tangible faces to the mysterious Soldats and give the plot a compelling drive forward to its gripping conclusion.
		NOIR is the brainchild of Tsukimura Ryoei, who co-created EL HAZARD with Hayashi Hiroki.
	www.ex.org /articles/2002/2002.02.19-rev_anime-j-noir.html (1182 words)

	What Is Noir? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Roman noir, literally "fl novel," is a term reserved especially for novelists such as Thompson, Cornell Woolrich and David Goodis.
		These lines, especially Serie Noire, were responsible for the French concept of noir fiction, just as Black Lizard and its editor Barry Gifford were responsible for America's use of the term.
		Noir seemed to be a perfect word to describe their work because their fiction is darker in content than traditional harboiled fiction, and it also seemed appropriate that a French word be used since the French have such a great appreciation of these writers.
	home.comcast.net /~noirfiction/what.html (769 words)

	Film Noir
		This film noir was made during the height of the McCarthy Era, by anti-establishment film star Humphrey Bogart with stunning femme fatale Gloria Grahame.
		Considered historically to be the first true film noir, this first-time directing effort by John Huston is still one of the all-time classics of film.
		Our resident noir expert reviews this classic suspense tale remastered for new generations of filmgoers (whose only idea of suspense may be the latest Stephen Seagal movie).
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/NOIR.HTM (671 words)

	Book Review: "Noir" by K. W. Jeter : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Noir is a deeply disturbing science fiction novel that might be classified as a work in the Cyberpunk genre.
		To call Noir a dark vision of the future is to call a fl hole a dark portion of the universe.
		In the future setting of Noir, intellectual property theft is a capital crime and enforcers for the Collection Agency operate as cop, judge and jury all rolled into one.
	www.indybay.org /news/2004/07/1687844.php (1146 words)

	Noir Vol 1: Shades of Darkness DVD Review. DVD VISION JAPAN (DVD VISION)
		Calling themselves “Noir” they open business as a team of hired killers to earn their “daily bread” as they slowly unravel these mysteries.
		Those familiar with the “film noir” genre may notice the use of some camera angles and silhouettes that are staples of the genre, and the creators of the Noir anime have put a lot of these devices to good use in the anime.
		Noir may not be the best anime series ever made, but it’s a good demonstration of what anime can be capable of.
	www.dvdvisionjapan.com /noir.html (1694 words)

	Noir Anime Impressions - Tokidoki Entertainment Journal - Anime and Video Game Community
		Noir is certainly an entertaining show (when the footage is new, that is - more on this later), and the storylines, while very episodic at this point, keep your attention.
		The classic traits of the “film noir” style (no escape from the mean streets, loneliness, and death) in which the show is named after are present in Noir in the lead characters’ veiled pasts and (traditionally solo and lonely) macabre profession.
		Film noir’s style of complex composition and dreadful atmosphere is fully realized in Noir through fantastic shots of Kirika’s killing style (hanging a man by his own necktie), morbid locales (Mireille’s favorite place to visit, the cemetery), and other stylistically pleasing shots and settings.
	tokidokijournal.com /anime/noir (883 words)

	AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> Noir Vol. #1: Shades of Darkness (Regular & Special Edition)
		A love it or hate it series, Noir is something that provides something really good for those who enjoy it for what the creators intended it to be.
		Noir opens with the introduction of Mireille Bouquet, a woman in Paris who lives her life as an assassin for hire.
		For me, Noir is a series that?s really easy to pop on and just lose myself in, almost to the point of the episodes blending together after I?ve finished the disc (hence my thinking that these make better single-episode viewings than a marathon).
	www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/disc_reviews/1769.php (1719 words)

	Noir
		Noir is filled with characters seemingly devoid of any morals; this general feeling is one of the series largest delving points.
		Noir succeeds as a series inundated with style, but beneath that lies an intriguing plot full of unexpected twists and turns.
		Noir is an excellent example of a stylish anime done properly.
	www.animeacademy.com /finalrevdisplay.php?id=376 (690 words)

	Pinot Noir
		Pinot Noir shows some promise and has a possible future in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, and in New Zealand, although all may prove to have growing seasons that are generally too short and too humid for consistently outstanding results.
		The popular image persists that California Pinot Noir is a light, fruity wine of no consequence, but California vintners over the past twenty years have been improving site and clonal selections, viticultural methods, and vinification techniques to increase their record of success.
		Although Pinot Noir harmonizes well with a wide variety of foods, the best match to show off the delicacy and texture of Pinot Noir is a good cut of plain roast beef.
	www.winepros.org /wine101/grape_profiles/pinot.htm (1118 words)

	Noir by K. W. Jeter
		As one of Jeter's character's describes it, noir is also a reference to "low-brow American culture, ages ago, ancient fl-and-white movies filled with shadows, garish paperback cover art that seemed equally devoted to guns, lip-dangling cigarettes, and off-the-shoulder cleavage".
		The copyright rant reminded me of reading De Sade, where in the midst of torture, sodomy, rape and kinky sex there appears a tract on the Republicanism and the rights of man. Then, after the position statement is read out by one of the characters, the action continues as before.
		Noir gives the reader every reason to believe that Jeter holds rather extreme views on intellectual property and that this is not just "the characters speaking".
	www.bearcave.com /bookrev/noir.html (1444 words)

	Film and Roman Noir Web Page: What is Film Noir?
		There are seven elements of film noir Raymond Borde and Etienne Chauteton highlight in Panorama du Film Americain (excerpted and translated in the Film Noir Reader edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini).
		Crossfire are structured from the perspective of the police, yet this does not limit the brutal violence and perversity of the murders in Crossfire.
		So a noir may have one noir element, another film have three but not be a noir.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/whatis.shtml (441 words)

	Welcome to Noir.org - Hirez Digital Painting! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Noir is attending the DA Summit located at the Palladium in Hollywood!
		Noir is redesigning its site and we are looking for additional coders to assist us.
		Noir has come a long way in the past several months, things were shakey at first, but we seem to have ironed out the kinks and are now rolling along smoothly.
	www.noir.org (3020 words)

	Red Inkworks Fade To Black
		Film noir, occasionally acerbic, usually cynical, and often enthralling, gave us characters trying to elude some mysterious past that continues to haunt them, hunting them down with a fatalism that taunts and teases before delivering the final, definitive blow.
		Edward Dmytryk - The Father of Film Noir: One of the finest examples of film noir is Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (1947), a tense, talky thriller shot entirely at night and recognized as the first Hollywood film to deal with the subject of racial bigotry.
		A progenitor of the film noir of the 1960's, Lang was preoccupied throughout his oeuvre with the dark side of human nature: vengeance, violence, and the criminal mind.
	www.redinkworks.com /fade_to_black.htm (2577 words)

	Marche Noir's Amazing Computer Key Rings
		But Marché Noir's computer key rings are the ultimate in personal technology.
		Operation system independent and instantly installed, they connect the world's greatest tool and the the most sophisticated processor ever known: the human finger and the human brain.
		Marché Noir's Computer Key Rings are spring mounted to accurately reproduce the action on your favorite key - so you can hit it whenever you need to reboot your cool.
	www.marchenoir.com /hotrings.html (141 words)

	Anime News Network - Noir (TV)
		Noir - Shades of Darkness DVD + Empty Artbox + Tshirt (DVD 1) 2003-02-18
		Noir - The End of the Matter (DVD 7) 2003-10-28
		Noir - Complete Collection (Thinpak) (DVD 1-7) 2005-06-14
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=407 (268 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		As you read this book, you worry that jarring, sarcastic, or dark concepts are thrown in just because, but by the end of the novel the neural tissue speaker wires, the indeadted, McNihil's eyes, and much, much more are so VERY important to the plot and "resolution" of the story.
		In NOIR by K.W. Jeter the author dishes up a new slice of reality-one seen through the cyber-fixed eyes of his "asp head" character McNihil.
		McNihil prefers the noir reality to the world of neurotechnology, brain manipulation, others were forced to endure.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553576380 (1296 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Equally problematic is his tendency to assume in his reader a sophisticated knowledge of the conventions of both the noir thrillers of the 1930s and contemporary cyberpunk SF.
		For the central character in NOIR acts with a brutality that at one or two points goes far beyond the boundaries of noir and well into the territory of sadism.
		Noir is an excellent novel, particularly to those more interested in reading the book than looking for mistakes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553576380?v=glance (1803 words)

	Night of the Soul
		Film noir is not a genre....It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood.
		It has been determined that many disparate films are included in film noir and that they are united into a cohesive body of work by a dark mood and visual style that suggests claustrophobia, paranoia, and nihilism and by an unremittingly pessimistic vision of despair, fear, and dread.
		While a few films noirs had been made in color (most notably Leave Her to Heaven in 1945), for the most part it is impossible to effectively show dank, rain-washed streets and harsh, oblique shadows in glorious Technicolor.
	library.calumet.purdue.edu /nitesoul.htm (6264 words)

	The Tomb of Victor Noir
		Photographs of the tomb of Victor Noir, Père-Lachaise, Paris, taken in 1996.
		Victor Noir was a 19th-century journalist (1858-1870), shot in a duel for having either criticized (or perhaps cuckolded) a relative of Napoléon III.
		In life he enjoyed a reputation as a playboy; in death, he has become a fertility symbol, the statue permanently surrounded by flowers left by his 'admirers'.
	www.raingod.com /angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/France/Paris/VictorNoir.html (84 words)

	Spenser Selby Noir Interview
		Noir thematics play out in a variety of ways, but the darkness is always present in the script and in the conception of characters.
		NOIR AL: But look at the lack of "depth" and "shading" in the coloration of its fl and white as opposed to depth of shading in some of the classic Noirs.
		Many noirs end in places like dark factories, tunnels, etc. So maybe you are onto something but keep in mind that Noir as a whole had variable ways of manifesting its themes and concepts.
	www.noirfilm.com /BC_Spencer_Selby.htm (5319 words)

	Steven Spielberg, Noir Criminal By Tim Appelo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Noir is about circumambient evil whose tendrils reach for your heart and about your horror at seeing your own heart reaching back to greet them.
		Noir Goes to Washington (or is that "It's a Wonderful Noir"?).
		I think one of the greatest things about Noir was that, like in Casablanca, beautiful things out to be, they exist right there on the fringe of reality, right where they are near enough to tease our consciousness, but no matter how hard the hero works, they slip away in the end.
	slate.msn.com /?id=2067489 (1183 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Film Noir Reader (Film Noir Reader) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		For all the talk of film noir having been created in the minds of critics after the fact, it's apparent that these writers comprehended the existence of film noir style as it was being created.
		Topics include: noir science fiction, British film noir, abstract expressionism in film noir, female protagonists in neo-noir, and tabloid/crime photographer WeeGee's (Arthur Fellig) relationship to film noir, including discussion of the 1992 film "Public Eye" that was inspired by his career.
		But the Film Noir Reader opens with a collection of essays from the 1970s that display everything bad about the 70s, academic, pretentious, pompous, over-anxious to establish a high-brow status for a low-brow art form (at least it was then).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879101970?v=glance (2187 words)

	Ensemble Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It is our pleasure to extend our subscription package to include seats to The Orphan Boy on an evening of your choice, and to include an invitation to a reception with the artists on opening night, May 26.
		Ensemble Noir's unique artistic vision encompasses music from a broad range of cultures with an emphasis on works by composers from Africa and its Diaspora.
		Through concerts, educational activities, residencies and recording projects, Ensemble Noir explores the landscape where the cultures of the world merge with contemporary music.
	www.ensemblenoir.org (269 words)

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