TCM: Summer of Darkness—Thoughts on Film Noir

My favorite quality of noir is its sense of dark humor, even in the bleakest of situations, so it should come as no surprise that most of my favorite submissions to #NoirSummer have some comedic bite to them. These tweets all have a complete story, consistent voice, and distinctive point of view within only 140 characters, and make great use of wordplay to provide some new life to noir staples – mystery women who spell trouble, or worse yet, ruin; the boozy, put-upon lives of our schmuck heroes; the dichotomy of hot and cold imagery within the external environments of these stories.