" begins with the Orson Welles film, (1958), which featured Welles both behind and in front of the camera. That movie is often cited as the end of the line, noir's rococo tombstone...the film after which noir could no longer be made, or at least could no longer be made in the same way... It is my belief, Hirsch writes, that neo-noir does exist and that noir is entitled to full generic status. Over the past forty years, since noir's often-claimed expiration, it has flourished under various labels. Among the movies he discusses as evidence: (1974), (1981), John Woo's Hong Kong blood-ballets (e.g., , 1989) and the pulpy oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino." -