Resumen de "Un greve, sanglant et poetic" (A Strike, Bloody and Poetic): French Film Noir and the Defeat of the Popular Front
French film noir is generally critically constructed as derived from, commenting upon, and rewriting the Americanmovement, with the major works coming in the late 1950s and 1960s, at precisely the moment when Americannoir was declining. This paper though will argue against that proposition and instead claim that the end of what isgenerally referred to as poetic realism constituted the beginning of film noir as it was subsequently developed inpostwar Hollywood and that that moment was intimately bound up with a representation of the ending of the periodof working class activity that had itself founded the Popular Front.
