Emerging in France around the same time as Black Mask was getting its act together, Poetic Realism was both a stylistic and political movement. It was concerned with the everyday stories of the poor and working class and used light and dark, here, its put much better at this link:
http://www.criterion.com/explore/15-poetic-realism
Main point was, it wasn't realism, it was realism with a large dose of style. In fact noir was anti-realism in many regards, and this should be the beating conceptual heart of our design.
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