The document discusses gender, age, location, class, status, ethnicity, and stereotypes in film noir. It notes that the protagonists in film noir are typically young (30-40), male and female, and set in cities like New York to capture the dark atmosphere. The protagonists represented have high status, though not within the normal social hierarchy, with the man belonging to a gang and the woman nearly killed due to her power. Ethnicity is kept as typically white American with no bias to a single gender. Society in the film noir features quietly deadly people who must watch their backs.