SP 471 American Film History Week 7 - Film Noir
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Film Noir
Literally Black Film
Evolved in the 1940s althoughthe roots can be traced throughGerman Expressionism, French
films of the 1930s and the starkAmerican gangster/crime filmsof the 1930s
Answer to the optimistic andpatriotic escapist fare
Reflected change in attitudeafter WWII
1941-1958
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Film Noir
Literally Black Film
Evolved in the 1940s althoughthe roots can be traced throughGerman Expressionism,
French films of the 1930s andthe stark Americangangster/crime films of the1930s
Answer to the optimistic and
patriotic escapist fare Reflected change in attitude
after WWII
1941-1958
M, 1931
The Public Enemy, 1931
Pepe le Moko, 1937
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Film Noir
Literary tradition
Pulp Fiction
Writer-driven genre Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
James M. Cain
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Film Noir
The Look
Stark black & white
chiaroscuro (Italian forlight-dark) Physical effects of light
on surfaces
Dark and light with littlegray
Excessive shadows Low key
High Contrast
Out of the Past, 1947
T-Men, 1947
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Film Noir
The Look
Disorienting visual
schemes
T-Men, 1947
He Walked by Night, 1948
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Film Noir
The Look
Ominous shadows
The Third Man, 1949
T-Men, 1947
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Film Noir
The Look
Skewed camera
angles
The Third Man, 1949
Pickup on South Street, 1953
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Film Noir
The Look
Night in the city
Wet Dark
Murky
The Big Combo, 1955
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Film Noir
The Look
Claustrophobic
interiors Cheap hotels Abandoned
warehouses
Low rent apartments
Detour, 1945
The Big Combo, 1955
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Film Noir
The Heroes or anti-heroes
Cannot escape their past or
human nature
Conflicted
Morally ambiguous
Protagonist often doomed
to repeat past mistakes or
pay for recently made
mistakes
The Big Sleep, 1946
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Film Noir
Female archetypes The Good Girl
Trustworthy
Loving Reliable
The Femme Fatale Duplicitous
Predatory
Tough Gorgeous
Independent
Out of the Past, 1947
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Film Noir
The Stories
Elliptical and twisting
Cynical
Doomed love
Dark side of humanexistence
Nobody emerges to triumph
Often told in the past tenseor flashback
Voice-over narration -subjective, flawed narrator
Scarlet Street, 1945
Sunset Boulevard, 1950
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Film Noir
Modern Film Noir
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Film Noir
The Big Heat(1953)
Directed by Fritz Lang
Starring Glenn Ford, GloriaGrahame and Lee Marvin
Inverts the classic femme
fatale who ruins
everyones life