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Dark Streets and Strange Detours: Film Noir in Context

When you'll study it
Semester 2
CATS points
15
ECTS points
7.5
Level
Level 5
Module lead
Michael Williams
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

Film Noir is one of Hollywood’s perennial cult genres, yet it is notoriously difficult to define, as it essentially amounts to a retrospective invention by critics. This module will attempt an understanding of the term through reference to its cultural contexts, placing the main corpus of the genre’s classics within its original historical moment of the 1940s and 1950s, as well as exploring its later Neo-Noir and global incarnations

Linked modules

FILM1001 or FILM2006 or FILM1027 or FILM1020