Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, let’s revisit the 1955 noir The Big ...

Borrowing from 1940s film noir, Lasky played with light and shadow to add a grittier feel ... crafting them with distinctive silhouettes and a high level of detail to help those light- ing ...

The violence and cynicism that highlighted the plots of those earlier films, as well as the creative use of light and shadow, carry directly into the hardboiled detective stories that film noir is ...

though raised Catholic), molded urban crime movies that combined psychological darkness with a play of light and shadow that helped give birth to the name of a new genre: film noir. Yet in the ...

Deep shadows, dim lighting, and visual composition evoke moodiness, cynicism, pessimism, and subjective psychological points of view. As in her earlier study of film noir, Blackout: World War II ...