Dark Charisma in Noir Films: The Death of the Ideal Self

Noir Films, Dark Charisma and the Death of the Ideal Self draws on sociocultural theory to illuminate the development and content of classic noir and neo-noir films, their audience reception and their continuing attraction by linking the origins of film noir to the extended moral crisis of the “noir generation” in America and Europe. It demonstrates that noir films and the neo-noir films that followed are inseparable from the continuing cultural revolution of late modernity.

This revolution ...