What is Film Noir? | Film Historian Foster Hirsch

Film Historian Foster Hirsch sits down with H8URS to answer the question: What is Film Noir?

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[OneMan-wlwj]

Best summation I've heard.
Being on the board of directors of the film noir foundation doesn't hurt either. I would've expected top-notch analysis and got it . Thanks.

[loosegoose]

One of the best definitions! So many confusing essays, but you cut through the fog! Brilliant.

[mauricioduron]

TRULY exceptional.
Thank you.
No better summation anywhere else.
From the start, crime, greed, lust would have been a repressed part of their lives, which is why the characters are not prepared to deal with them once they become manifest, unpredictably!
TRUTH -- "noirs" from the forties to the late 1950s.

[davidcrockett]

Just watched "Vicki" on DVD with Professor Hirsch"s commentary. Best DVD commentary I've heard. Even better than Roger Ebert on Dark City. If you want to learn the possibilities in making a film, Don't miss Vicki.

[sunnyveerpratapsingh]

Thnk you .. very helpful for new filmmakers like me, your videos are best and I guess you need more Subs and views. Thank you once again

[JJDavid]

Pretty sure my Professor used this video to help pick films for his syllabus. Cheers

[johnnyplunkett]

The movie network labels all kinds of things as noir that arecnot. Cry Wolf for example. A Gothic Romance thriller mystery.

[geraldking]

THE KILLER INSIDE ME.... so dark that the 1950s Texas sun couldn't penetrate.

[johngrahamwilson]

Yes, I agree with most of this analysis. But I wonder what it is about the role of the 40s, as a decade, that contributed to the genre. America, recently recovering from the lawless 20s - something about the way people spoke and the size of the cars - something about the, "You are on your own, buddy, " that characterized a recently immigrated population on a huge land mass, inside a 'sink or swim' capitalist economy. Something about all this that helped to create the noir genre. What do you reckon?