"The film historian Sheri Chinen Biesen writes in her book "Blackout" that there are two separate strains of film noir—one arose during wartime, the other followed it: "These early noir films created a psychological atmosphere that in many ways marked a response to an increasingly realistic and understandable anxiety – about war, shortages, changing gender roles, and 'a world gone mad' – that was distinctive from the later postwar paranoia about the bomb, the cold war, HUAC, and the blacklist, which was more intrinsic to late 1940s and 1950s noir pictures."
It's hard to define film noir at times as there is not a clearly defined genre, but less or more most cinema lovers have an idea of noir and its most stereotypical characteristics. We still enjoy our neo-noirs but the noirs of the '40s and '50s were something else. Yet they were too many, so some didn't get enough recognition or we don't talk about them much anymore. Let's take a look at 10 noir films that are worth your time."
