Paper by Lauren Sousa. All films available on DVD. Any treatise, by any author, about film noir is by its nature reductive. A notoriously slippery group of films, noirs can be difficult to identify, and not everyone agrees on their definition. They were not all made after World War II, they were certainly not all … Continue reading Darkness in the Everyman: Male Archetypes in the Films Noirs of Billy Wilder