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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 black 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
		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.
		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.
		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
		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.
		Noir has an insane body count - but not a drop of blood to be found.
	www.animetempy.com /reviews/LMNO/noir.htm (2129 words)

	AnimeNfo.Com : Anime : Noir
		Noir will emphasize plot and story, rather than flashy gunfight sequences and big explosions.
		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.
	www.animenfo.com /animetitle,290,kjccvj,noir.html (125 words)

	NeoNoir
		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.
		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.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/NeoNoir.html (1081 words)

	What Is Noir?
		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.
		Roman noir, literally "black novel," is a term reserved especially for novelists such as Thompson, Cornell Woolrich and David Goodis.
		Noir fiction, in America, can be defined as a sub-genre of the Hardboiled School.
	home.comcast.net /~noirfiction/what.html (769 words)

	The Incredible World of Bowling Noir: An Essay by William Preston Robertson
		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.
		This is that sub- of sub-genres, the rarest of the rare, the hardest of the boiled: bowling noir.
	members.aol.com /bobbuttman/bowlingnoir/bowlingnoir.htm (1053 words)

	Noir Vol 1: Shades of Darkness DVD Review. DVD VISION JAPAN (DVD VISION)
		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.
		Calling themselves “Noir” they open business as a team of hired killers to earn their “daily bread” as they slowly unravel these mysteries.
	www.dvdvisionjapan.com /noir.html (1694 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 black 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)

	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 blackened hands protecting the peace of the newborns.
		NOIR is the brainchild of Tsukimura Ryoei, who co-created EL HAZARD with Hayashi Hiroki.
		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.
	www.ex.org /articles/2002/2002.02.19-rev_anime-j-noir.html (1182 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)

	AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> Noir Vol. #1: Shades of Darkness (Regular & Special Edition)
		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).
		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.
	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)

	Welcome to Noir.org - Hirez Digital Painting!
		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.
		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.
	www.noir.org (3020 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 Anime Impressions - Tokidoki Entertainment Journal - Anime and Video Game Community
		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.
		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.
	tokidokijournal.com /anime/noir (883 words)

	Noir by K. W. Jeter
		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".
		As one of Jeter's character's describes it, noir is also a reference to "low-brow American culture, ages ago, ancient black-and-white movies filled with shadows, garish paperback cover art that seemed equally devoted to guns, lip-dangling cigarettes, and off-the-shoulder cleavage".
		My wife and I have a large library and we collect signed first editions (which includes a signed copy of Noir), so I believe to my core that artists should be rewarded for their efforts as well.
	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).
		Recent films like Bound, Dark City and virtually anything by John Dahl are not mere homages to film noir, but contemporary noirs themselves.
		What follows is another attempt to fill the abyss of film noir with definitions in addition to the ones above.
	www.eskimo.com /~noir/whatis.shtml (441 words)

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

	Red Inkworks Fade To Black
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.redinkworks.com /fade_to_black.htm (2577 words)

	Marche Noir's Amazing Computer Key Rings
		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.
		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.
	www.marchenoir.com /hotrings.html (141 words)

	The Tomb of Victor Noir
		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'.
		Photographs of the tomb of Victor Noir, Père-Lachaise, Paris, taken in 1996.
	www.raingod.com /angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/France/Paris/VictorNoir.html (84 words)

	Night of the Soul
		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.
		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.
	library.calumet.purdue.edu /nitesoul.htm (6264 words)

	WEBORGERS - Hard-Boiled Mysteries - Films
		Film Noir was coined after WW2, in France, to name these black and white films dealing with gangsters, PIs and central characters struggling with a corrupted world; the term was specifically used for films having a content overpassing simple descriptions of violence or of the gangster world.
		Quality in directing, acting and scripts was often the mark of this breed of first class films, qualified as Noir.
		Later, the HB/Noir type of films was to be found as well in cinematographic genres, totally different from the detective/mystery settings.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/6384/filmnoir.html (261 words)

	Steven Spielberg, Noir Criminal By Tim Appelo
		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.
		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.
		Noir Goes to Washington (or is that "It's a Wonderful Noir"?).
	slate.msn.com /?id=2067489 (1183 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Noir
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553576380?v=glance (1803 words)

	Ensemble Noir
		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.
		Ensemble Noir strives to promote cultural diversity in contemporary classical music.
	www.ensemblenoir.org (269 words)

	FAQ - Dmoz/Arts/Movies/Genres/Film_Noir
		Film noir is French for a genre of approximately 490 movies made between 1941 and 1958.
		Everyone has their own list of what is "in" as noir and what is "out." Some films, like Casablanca are incorrectly regarded as noir simply because it is in black and white, has a sad ending, and stars Humphrey Bogart.
		Film noir is supposed to kind of turn you on your head.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Genres/Film_Noir/faq.html (345 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Film Noir Reader (Film Noir Reader)
		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)

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