Noir 80. Cine negro 1950-1959

The 1980s were a pivotal decade for film noir. A growing awareness of its own importance emerged with the creation of specialized festivals, monographic magazines, and the consolidation of a retro movement that paid homage to its glorious past. Simultaneously, the genre experienced a period of intense productivity, forging a new aesthetic for the decade, drawing on contemporary trends —cinéma du look, a gritty realism in light of the decline of censorship, the stylization of heroic bloodshed, and so on— while remaining committed to street-level crime stories. The two major film industries —the American and the French— continued to operate at full capacity, while new approaches from Hong Kong, Argentina, and Spain were also being incorporated. This book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of 1980s film noir on a global scale. It includes an appendix dedicated to crime fiction, an index of names and films, quotes from the creators and hundreds of images, in an extraordinary edition that highlights a period of film noir to be discovered and celebrated.