Film Noir Critical Essays
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Apollo Leisure Guide: Film Noir - Dan Jardine reviews Nicholas Christopher's "Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City," and produces an enlightening essay in the process.
Bright Lights Film Journal: Film Noir and Neo-Noir - Film noir essays from the Bright Lights Film Journal.
Film Noir and Contemporary American Culture - A series of essays exploring the themes of film noir and their relevance to contemporary culture in the United States.
High Heels on Wet Pavement - Essay from Michael Mills' The Palace examines the role of the femme fatale in film noir and how the archetype changed over time.
James M. Cain: The Prince of Darkness - William Preston Robertson on hard-boiled writer James M. Cain's novels vs. the film noirs that were made from them.
Night of the Soul - Popular culture essay on the origins of film noir. Appendix includes references to seminal Borde-Chaumeton article on film noir as well as a lengthy filmography.
The Noir Connection - An essay describing film noir and the influence of German expressionism. Also a bibliography, filmography, and trivia quiz.
Richard Widmark: The Face of Film Noir - Brian W. Fairbanks examines Richard Widmark's contributions to film noir, beginning with "Kiss of Death" in 1947.
The Shadows of Film Noir - Brian W. Fairbanks examines the film noir's origins and recent revival.
Ten Shades of Noir - Illustrated essays analyzing ten genre classics. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.