“Noir Class” – 8/14/15

Indiana Weekend

An online Ball State class about film noir attracted more than 16,000 people this summer, and the professor who teaches it explains why we’re still fascinated with a movie form that originated in the 1940s.

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Music in this show:

Soundtrack from The Maltese Falcon (1941) – Adolph Deutsch
Soundtrack from Double Indemnity (1944) – MiklÛs RÛzsa
Theme from Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini
Soundtrack from Detour (1945) – Leo Erdody