woman in film Noir

(1) Place argues that film noir is a movement, not a genre. Genres remain consistent across time, whereas movements respond to particular social conditions. Noir cuts across genres, but has an especially close connection to the detective genre. Place wrote this article in the 1970s about films that appeared in the 1930s-40s, but she notes a resurgence in interest in noir in the 1970s. What are the reasons she gives? There has been another resurgence in noir in the past 15 years or so. Please speculate about some reasons that might be the case, drawing on Place’s argument. (2) Place asserts that popular culture functions as myth. She sketches out how myth works and then makes a case about film noir. How does film noir work as myth, according to Place? What audience fantasy does it indulge?