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Dec 22, 2021 · The shadowy netherworld of German Expressionism and the cold eye of the late Weimar era bequeathed a visual style and tonal attitude: the warped mindscapes of Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Dr....
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Film noir draws from sources not only in cinema but from other artistic forms as well. The low-key lighting schemes commonly linked with film noir is in the tradition of chiaroscuro and tenebrism, techniques using high contrasts of light and dark developed by fifteenth and sixteenth century painters associated with Mannerism and the Baroque. Anothe...
The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. The movie most commonly cited as the first "true" film noir is Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury (1936) and You Only Live Once(1937), both directed by Fritz Lang, are conside...
The 1960s and 1970s
New trends emerged in the post-classic era. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), directed by John Frankenheimer, Shock Corridor (1962), directed by Samuel Fuller, and Brainstorm(1965), directed by experienced noir character actor William Conrad, all treat the theme of mental dispossession within stylistic and tonal frameworks derived from classic film noir. In a different vein, filmmakers such as Arthur Penn, John Boorman, and Alan J. Pakula directed movies that knowingly related themselves to th...
The 1980s through the present
The turn of the decade brought Scorsese's black-and-white Raging Bull (co-written by Schrader) was an acknowledged masterpiece that is often voted as the greatest film of the 1980s in critics' polls. The film tells the story of a boxer's moral self-destruction that recalls in both theme and visual ambiance noir dramas such as Body and Soul (1947) and Champion (1949). From 1981, the popular Body Heat, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, invokes a different set of classic noir elements, th...
Aziz, Jamaluddin Bin. "Future Noir." In Transgressing Women: Investigating Space and the Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers. Ph. D. dissertation, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancas...Borde, Raymond, and Etienne Chaumeton. A Panorama of American Film Noir, 1941–1953. Translated by Paul Hammond. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2002. ISBN 0-87286-412-X.Christopher, Nicholas. Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City. New York: Free Press, 1997. ISBN 0-684-82803-0.Dancyger, Ken, and Jeff Rush Alternative Scriptwriting: Successfully Breaking the Rules. Boston: Focal Press, 2002. ISBN 0-240-80477-5.Biesen, Sheri Chinen. 2005. Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-8217-6.Cameron, Ian (ed). 1993. The Book of Film Noir. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-0589-4.Chopra-Gant, Mike. 2005. Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir. London: IB Tauris. ISBN 1-85043-838-2.Clarens, Carlos. 1980. Crime Movies: An Illustrated History. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-01262-X.All links retrieved March 26, 2024. 1. Classic Noir Online comprehensive survey of over 700 noir titles, with links to actors and directors. www.classicnoir.com 2. Film Noir leading individual fansite; part of Tim Dirks's Filmsite.org 3. Film Noir: An Introduction essay with links to discussions of ten important noirs; part of Images: A Journal of ...
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A 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.
Mac Orlan and others, such as Francis Carco and Eugène Dabit, were close to the so-called populist literature of the 1920s that focused on the working classes, but which were not untouched by crime. Concurrently, crime literature thrived; particularly influential were two Belgian writers, Stanislas-André Steeman and, especially, Georges Simenon.
"Film Noir" is a term that was applied to a style of American cinema that was popular in the 1930s and 40s. The term translates to "Black Film," which refers to both the characteristic lighting and the dark subject matter. Noir films often depict different aspects of the criminal underworld, and are most commonly set in the 'mean streets' of ...
Jul 25, 2017 · Cordon noir: here are the prime ingredients that go into the French version of film noir, which produced many classic crime movies from the 1930s to 1970s. 25 July 2017 By Andrew Male
The Dark Noir Films of 20th Century France. By Lauren Shade. La Bête Humaine. Paris Films. December 23, 1938 (France) While Film Noir is a term that’s often associated with Hollywood, the French played a huge role in creating the Noir genre.
