TV Noir Dark Genre On The Small Screen HC

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Noir has its roots in the hardboiled detective fiction of the likes of Hammett and Chandler; the works of these authors were among the wave of post-WWII Hollywood films that in 1946 were, separately, tagged "film noir" by French cineastes Nino Frank and Jean-Pierre Chartier. Dark storytelling gained traction on the small screen, with some key differences from film. In TV Noir, noted film and television historian Allen Glover has written the first complete study of the subject, surveying the TV programming that evolved from the film noir heyday.