This is the closest you’ll get to a magazine on this site.

Click on the subjects listed on the right to read features – either by myself or by SPECIAL GUEST WRITERS…

Hope you enjoy them…

What Is Film Noir?
My interpretations of how to classify the unclassifiable…

Costume in Noir
Pretty self-explanatory – again by Yours Truly.

Music in Noir
I really must think up some more subtle titles…

All the World Loves a Glover
More of my obsessions – this time my collection of 76 pairs of evening gloves…
This is the full version (in glove-speak “Opera” length) of a feature that appeared in The Times in March 2003…

Can Private Investigators Drink Synthetic Rye?
NOIRESQUE is delighted and honoured to host this intriguing alternative look at the nominally conflicting worlds of Film Noir and Science Fiction. DR DAVID BUTLER  is Lecturer/Director of the MA in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester whose PhD on Jazz in Film Noir has been developed into a fascinating, comprehensive and very readable exploration of all music in Noir. "Jazz Noir- Listening to music from Phantom Lady to the Last Seduction" is published by Praeger, priced £31

More coming soon…

Several of the articles here will be included and expanded upon, alongside many new features, images, lists and notes in the forthcoming NOIRESQUE BOOK - watch this space for details...
 

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