... to the limits of its own boundaries, such as Gene Kelly's Singing In The Rain', which is nothing but a typical musical. Schrader bluntly dismisses that film noir can be defined by genre stating that Film noir is not a genre': it is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict,but rather by the most subtle qualities of ... tone and mood. (Schrader 1972) Critics such as Durgnat and Schrader avoid the problem of defining film noir according to genre by suggesting that the term film noir' can be best described as films, which share certain styl...

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