Film Noir Links:

From Nino Frank, “A New Kind of Detective Story” (1946)

Dashiell Hammett, the ending of The Maltese Falcon (1930)

The “Palming” scene, 1931 Maltese Falcon

Fate of the falcon?

Critics on noir

Reviews:

The Maltese Falcon review (Bosley Crowther, NYT, 10/4/1941)

The Maltese Falcon review (Otis Ferguson, The New Republic, 10/20/41)

Double Indemnity review (Bosley Crowther, NYT, 9/7/1944)

Double Indemnity review (Manny Farber, The New Republic, 7/24/1944)

On detective fiction:

Ronald Knox’s “Detective Story Decalogue”

S.S. Van Dine, “Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories

Dashiell Hammett, “From the Memoirs of a Private Detective”

Slavoj Žižek on hardboiled detectives & film noir

Laura Mulvey on film noir

Some online film noir resources:

http://www.pictureshowman.com/articles_genhist_filmnoir.cfm

http://www.cindytsutsumi.com/wp-content/downloads/words/Film_Hist_40s_FilmNoir/index.html