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A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.
Many of the prototypical stories and attitudes expressed in classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression, known as noir fiction. [1] The term film noir, French for "black film" (literal) or "dark film" (closer meaning), [2] was first applied to Hollywood films by ...
Pulp noir is a subgenre influenced by various "noir" genres, as well as (as implied by its name) pulp fiction genres; particularly the hard-boiled genres which help give rise to film noir. [1] Pulp noir is marked by its use of classic noir techniques, but with urban influences. Various media include film, illustrations, photographs and videogames.
There are differing views on the origins but most commentators agree that the genre had become well established as a literary genre by the 1990s; Swedish writer Henning Mankell, who has sometimes been referred to as "the father of Nordic noir", [6] notes that the Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö "broke with the previous trends in crime fiction" and pioneered a new ...
In William Park's analysis of film noir, he states that we must view and interpret film for its message with the context of history within our minds; he states that this is how film can truly be understood by its audience. [44] Film genres such as film noir and Western film reflect values of the time period. While film noir combines German ...
The depictions of women in film noir come in a range of archetypes and stock characters, including the alluring femme fatale. A femme fatale ( / ˌ f æ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l / or / ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l / ; French: [fam fatal] , literally "lethal woman"), is a prevalent and indicating theme to the style of film noir .
Neo-noir is a film genre that adapts the visual style and themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with more graphic depictions of violence and sexuality. [1] During the late 1970s and the early 1980s, the term "neo-noir" surged in popularity, fueled by movies such as Sydney Pollack 's Absence of Malice ...
Cat Noir, the superhero identity of Adrien Agreste in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir; Guy Noir, a fictional private detective in A Prairie Home Companion radio show; Jack Noir, a character in the webcomic Homestuck; Madame Noir, a character in the Ressha Sentai ToQger; Spider-Man Noir, a Marvel comic book character