[A portion of an introduction originally published in They Went Thataway: Redefining Film Genres, Mercury House, 1994] Whichever way you turn, Fate steps out a foot to trip you. –Tom Neal’s Everyschmuck in Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) Film noir may be the hottest genre in American filmmaking these days—a strange development when you consider … Continue reading Film Noir: An Introduction