Film noir is viewed as being very much an American product since these films were often adapted from the work of American writes and were all made by the Hollywood studios. The heyday of film noir production is regarded as he 1940s and ‘50s and is usually traced from The Maltese Falcon (1941) to Touch of evil (1958) The films from this time are often referred to as ‘classic’ film noir, a term not intended o be a qualitative judgment but to identify films from this major period of film noir production.
Whilst other films have been easier to classify by generic groupings – musical, comedies, horror, science-fiction, gangster movies and war films – film noir has been harder to pin down. Unlike the other generic terms, ‘film noir’ was not a term used by the film industry to market films, but a category used retrospectively by critics to describe a group of films which they identified as having enough features in common to enable them to be grouped together under one heading.
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