I'm not sure it can be called a noir even though it's decidedly noirish in
some ways.  -- I'd argue that it's as much a noir as Welles' The Stranger
which is very similar in some ways to S of a D.  The problem in asking
whether or not something is or is not a noir is that noir is such a
difficult thing to define and that's probably because Noir has such a
bizarre history as a generic category.  To quote James Naremore: “it has
always been easier to recognize a film noir than to define the term."  -- I
don't know what a noir is but I know it when I see it (something like that,
right?).

Mikhail Gershovich


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Subject: Shadow of a Doubt


Hello everybody!
Is Alfred Hitchcocks 'Shadow of a Doubt' a Noir film?
Any opinions?
Thank you in advance for input.
Kristel




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