» Apollo Leisure Guide: Film Noir    Dan Jardine reviews Nicholas Christopher's "Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City," and produces an enlightening essay in the process.    http://apolloguide.com/mov_feat0820.htm

» Bright Lights Film Journal: Film Noir and Neo-Noir    Film noir essays from the Bright Lights Film Journal.    http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/filmnoir.html

» Film Noir and Contemporary American Culture    A series of essays exploring the themes of film noir and their relevance to contemporary culture in the United States.    http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/noir/noirxx.htm

» High Heels on Wet Pavement    Essay from Michael Mills' The Palace examines the role of the femme fatale in film noir and how the archetype changed over time.    http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir/index.html

» James M. Cain: The Prince of Darkness    William Preston Robertson on hard-boiled writer James M. Cain's novels vs. the film noirs that were made from them.    http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,472454,00.html

» Night of the Soul    Popular culture essay on the origins of film noir. Appendix includes references to seminal Borde-Chaumeton article on film noir as well as a lengthy filmography.    http://library.calumet.purdue.edu/nitesoul.htm

» No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays    A Berkeley student's thesis on the ladies of film noir. Very interesting.    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/noir/

» Richard Widmark: The Face of Film Noir    Brian W. Fairbanks examines Richard Widmark's contributions to film noir, beginning with "Kiss of Death" in 1947.    http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/widmark.html

» Ten Shades of Noir    Illustrated essays analyzing ten genre classics.    http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm

» The Noir Connection    An essay describing film noir and the influence of German expressionism. Also a bibliography, filmography, and trivia quiz.    http://www.germanhollywood.com/noir.html

» The Shadows of Film Noir    Brian W. Fairbanks examines the film noir's origins and recent revival.    http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/writer/Shadows1.html