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Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.
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The Tall Target (1951) — American Civil War noir; Dementia (a.k.a. Daughter of Horror) (1953) — horror noir; Carmen Jones (1954, color) — musical noir; Attack! (1956) — World War II noir; The Bad Seed (1956) — horror-thriller noir; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) — science fiction noir
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Some important film noir movies are: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Maltese Falcon (1941) Double Indemnity (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Key Largo (1948);Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and Touch of Evil (1958). The important actors from Hollywood film noir movies were Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, and Peter ...
The film noir period was the 1940s and 1950s. Even in the years after the 1950s, some movies were made in the film noir style. In the 1960s and 1970s, there were movies like The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Chinatown(1974), which were influenced by the film noir movies from the 1950s. In the 1980s and 1990s there were movies that were a bit like...
Film noir movies are often shot in cities at night, and the stories often take place in bars, nightclubs, gambling clubs, casinos, and cheap hotels. This makes film noir movies look very dark, because the scenes are shot at night, or inside dark places like a bar or hotel. Film noir movie scenes often have a lot of shadows, such as the shadows of w...
In film noir movies, even the heroes or lead characters are often bad or partly bad in some way. For example, the hero of a film noir movie may help an innocent man or woman who is being threatened by a criminal, or rescue a woman from a criminal gang. Yet the hero or lead character may also do bad things, such as commit crimes, hurt or threaten pe...
Robert Ottoson wrote a book in 1981 about film noir called A Reference Guide to the American Film Noir: 1940–1958.
"A Guide to Film Noir Genre" by Roger Ebert Archived 2013-01-20 at the Wayback MachineAesthetics of film noir Archived 2013-04-09 at the Wayback MachineA Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Definitive Reference Guide. Limelight. ISBN 978-1-55783-831-5. Hanson, Helen (15 December 2007). Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-561-6. Hare, William (2003). Early Film Noir: Greed, Lust and Murder Hollywood Style. McFarland.
Theatre of the Film Noir is a stage play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker. [1] Inspired by film noir tropes, the play centres on Inspector Clair, a detective who is investigating the death of Jean, a young gay resistance fighter in the aftermath of the Liberation of Paris in 1944. [2]
Film noir je filmový žánr existující v letech 1941 – 1958, na vrcholu v letech 1941 – 1950. Film noir je obvykle spojován s low key černobílým vzhledem založeným na německé expresionistické kinematografii. Mnoho z příběhů a postav je odvozeno z detektivních románů tzv. hardboiled school (drsné školy) s postavami ...
Film noir (franska för "svart film") är en subgenre inom thrillerfilmen. Klassisk film noir, genrens tidigaste filmer, är en kategori svartvita kriminalfilmer från Hollywood, från 1940- och 1950-talen. Termen myntades av franska filmkritiker – därav det franskklingande namnet. [1]
