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  2. Noir fiction - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Film noir - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Nordic noir - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Hardboiled - Wikipedia

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    Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction).The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as ...

  6. Pulp noir - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of film noir titles - Wikipedia

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    Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.

  8. The Boys' Black Noir Origin Story Just Solved a Major ...

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    The Boys clears up Black Noir's odd 'friendship' with Homelander with origin reveal.

  9. Noir - Wikipedia

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    Folk noir, a music genre; Noir fiction, a literary genre closely related to hardboiled genre; Nordic noir, noir fiction, TV series, and films set in the Nordic countries; Rural noir (fiction), also known as outback noir in Australia, novels with crimes set in rural locations

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