British Film Noir Guide

Although the film noir is most often associated with the hardboiled detective films Hollywood produced in the 1940s, there are many British exemplars of that genre that film historians and students must acknowledge. The author, whose publications include the Film Noir Guide (Keaney, 2003), has compiled an essential reference guide to 369 British “black films” produced from 1937 to 1964, rating them on a five‐star scale and providing invaluable notes on the evolution of the genre in British filmmaking. He devotes his introduction to discussing the similarities and differences between American and British film noir, and how both...