Question 1: Film noirs tend to revolve around heroes who are more flawed and morally questionable than the norm, often ________ of one sort or another.
Question 5: Similarly, while the private eye and the ________ are character types conventionally identified with noir, the majority of film noirs feature neither; so there is no character basis for genre designation as with the gangster film.
Question 8: In a different vein, films began to appear that self-consciously acknowledged the conventions of classic film noir as historical ________ to be revived, rejected, or reimagined.