Film Noir

Fishko Files | May 20, 2011

It’s been more than half a century since a wave of crime dramas burst on American movie screens, providing filmgoers and film-makers with a whole new vocabulary of dark shadows and saucy dialogue. WNYC’s Sara Fishko explores the form in this episode of Fishko Files.

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