From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that "age of anxiety" characterized by the di

Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture th

COEURS NOIRS is a collection of FILM NOIR newsprint ads from the 1940's & 1950's. Over 400 films are presented here, pulled from newspapers from all over the Un

One hundred six famous actresses and actors are portrayed in full-page pictures by twenty-four leading Hollywood photographers

Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extens