Noir dirt cheap

<p><em>Noir Dirt Cheap </em>takes the reader to a literary cinema where the committed and the curious will discover marvelous and eccentric insights into film noir.</p><p><em>Noir Dirt Cheap</em> is a series of picture essays on noir films in the public domain. That means the films have no copyright owner.</p><p><strong>In six pictorial essays Bernie Dowling explores the rise of Hollywood film noir from the ashes of war and the glorious pessimism of European theatrical and cinematic art.</strong></p><p><strong>Noir shone a light on greed lust power injustice and fighting back.</strong></p><p>Its craftspeople endured personal tragedies censorship and blacklisting.</p><p><strong><em>Noir Dirt Cheap </em>explores Poverty-Row studios what makes film noir its art and craft sexism homophobia class division censorship copyright human foibles and the love of classic film noir.</strong></p><p>You've read the abstract theories. Now read and see the humanity that was film noir.</p>