film noir was produced around the time of World War II and was named first by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946, who noticed how dark many of the American detective films had become. Films like M, Murder My Sweet and D.O.A.
Noir films became more prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960. Many films reflected the anxiety and insecurities of the time period and film noir counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's happy musicals and comedies. Distrust, fear, misery and obsession are extremely evident in film noir, it shows the true feelings of the Cold War period when the peril of nuclear annihilation was always present. I have read that the violent, greedy and criminal perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphor for society's evils, there was rarely a happy or optimistic ending in film noirs.
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