Description: The key elements that define film noir, America's only homegrown film movement, are explored in 400 B&W Photographs reveal the graphic and sensory core of the classic noir Femme Fatale, the visual icon and dramatic persona that underlies countless doomed narratives of the genre. From torch singers to gun molls, secretaries to sociopaths, black widows to B-girls, both blondes and brunettes, abused and empowered--they all haunt these vivid pages.
