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[[File:Noir 8041.png|frame| [[Private Detective]]? Check. [[Femme Fatale]]? Check. [[Chiaroscuro]] lighting? Check. This is Film Noir.]]

{{quote|''You need [[Cops and Detectives|cops]], venetian blinds, [[Everybody Smokes|lots of smoking]], [[Nice Hat|hats]], sweat, [[Blind Alley|dead-end streets]], guys who know all the angles except for the one that ends up sticking out of their backs. Sirens of the [[Chase Scene|automotive]] and [[Femme Fatale|female]] kind.''|'''James Lileks''', ''The Bleat'' [http://lileks.com/bleat/?p{{=}}701 "Think You Oughta Drink That"]}}{{broken link}}

{{quote|''You need [[Cops and Detectives|cops]], venetian blinds, [[Everybody Smokes|lots of smoking]], [[Nice Hat|hats]], sweat, [[Blind Alley|dead-end streets]], guys who know all the angles except for the one that ends up sticking out of their backs. Sirens of the [[Chase Scene|automotive]] and [[Femme Fatale|female]] kind.''|'''James Lileks''', ''The Bleat'' [http://lileks.com/bleat/?p{{=}}701 "Think You Oughta Drink That"]{{broken link}} }}

Film Noir is a genre of stylish crime dramas, difficult to define, but the 1940's and 50's were the classic period. Whether works since then can be accurately classed as Noir is a subject of much debate among film critics. Film Noir, and the literature from which it is drawn, is clearly the progenitor of later genres, particularly [[Cyberpunk]].