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Movies On The Radio: Film Noir

The Big Combo (1955)
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Smoke-filled rooms, femmes fatales and twisting crime plots are markers of a period in cinematography known as film noir.

Comprised mainly of films from the 1940s and 1950s, film noir features highly stylized characters and dramatic plot lines. Host Frank Stasio talks with Marsha Gordon, film professor at North Carolina State University, and Laura Boyes, film curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art, about the appeal of film noir. They hear listeners’ picks in the genre. The North Carolina Museum of Art hosts a series on the unreliable men of film noir,Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, through December.

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Laura Lee was the managing editor of The State of Things until mid February 2017. Born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina, Laura returned to the Old North state in 2013 after several years in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. in political science and international studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and her J.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2007.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.