Film noir often stands out in a stylistic and tonal sense, offering a pessimistic perspective to postwar audiences. The noir aesthetic is prominent and recognizable, complementing these darker tales.

Sheri Chinen Biesen’s Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style focuses on the film noir style and its evolution across different filmmaking eras. From classic Hollywood on to New Hollywood’s neo-noirs and streaming serials, the visual style that has accompanied film noir over the years has adapted and shifted constantly.

This book is recommended to film scholars and fans of film noir who are interested in reading about some of the hallmarks of the film noir style.

Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style is available via Columbia University Press.