… I extend their projects to the “black film wave” that began in the mid-1980s, its
subsequent internationalization, and the employment of film noir techniques by these …

… There are several surreal, metaphysically peculiar, even supernatural elements of Lost
Highway, and these may exclude the film from the neonoir class or make it at most a sort of neo-…

… and accepting many key philosophical positions. Still, I think that Black Film is a worthwhile
… like this in which philosophers think carefully about how issues of philosophy of art and …

… films’ philosophical importance clearer, I will first outline some commonly used narrative
themes and techniques in film noir … focus on how noir conventions arise in particular films by Bill …

… films Perhaps the common thread articulating these submerged connotations of film noir is
the often acknowledged one of existentialism, that French development within philosophical …

… film and the uniqueness of the film-viewing experience, but there is an enormous amount of
great philosophical … minimum conditions for the intelligibility of filmed action, and that attempt …

… to the 2006 volume The Philosophy of Film Noir, which focused on films of the 1940s and …
by dark secrets in their past. An American form first identified and named by French critics, noir …

… Even more recent noir movies, which perhaps deserve the title of ‘future noir’ or neo-noir, …
ending’, irredeemably vitiate film noir’s ostensibly pessimistic moral philosophy, that the social …

… In this essay, I explore realism in neo-noir by examining a cross section of films, paying …
actions in the neo-noir world. Not only will this help distinguish noir from neonoir in a nontrivial …

… in the philosophical and theological studies of film, this study investigates film noir from the
… It presents the key ideas behind the fields of film-philosophy and film-theology. Turning …