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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: OUT OF THE PAST on Blu-Ray

Sep 4, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By DREW MORTON Five years ago, I wrote a retrospective on film noir for Pajiba by honing down my favorite film genre (or movement or mode – depending on who you’re talking to) to the Top Five […]

My Kind of Movie: Baroque Noir and His Kind of Woman (1951)

May 28, 2014 Drew Morton 0

In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]