Download or read book Hollywood's Dark Cinema written by R. Barton Palmer and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus here is on a type of Hollywood film that has long been designated by a French critical term: film noir, or 'dark cinema'. Dark cinema, we may say, has enjoyed two periods of popularity, only the first of which will be treated here in significant detail.