Ergebnis für "Noir" in Popularkultur

Noir - as a style, movement, or sensibility - has its roots in hardboiled detective fiction by writers like Chandler and Hammett, and films adapted from their novels were among the first called "film noir" by French cineastes. But film isn't the only medium with a taste for a dark story. Hundreds of noir dramas have been produced for television, featuring detectives and femmes fatales, gangsters, and dark deeds, continuing week after week, with a new disruption of the social order. In TV Noir, television historian Allen Glover presents the first complete study of the subject.

Produced during the height of the post-World War II film noir movement, Blood on the Moon is a classic Western immersed in the film noir netherworld of double crosses, government corruption, shabby barrooms, gun-toting goons, and romantic betrayals. With this volume, biographer and noir expert Alan K. Rode brings the film to life for a new generation of listeners and film lovers.

Le trafic et la consommation de drogue ont explosé en France depuis dix ans. Une enquête exclusive au cœur du système et des secrets de la lutte anti-drogue. Le livre révèle l'ampleur inédite du trafic de drogue en France et décrit les coulisses de la guerre contre les organisations criminelles. Il s'appuie sur des rapports officiels mais surtout sur des témoignages exceptionnels de policiers, douaniers, magistrats, informateurs, trafiquants et consommateurs.