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Nicholas Christopher, Somewhere in the Night (1997) While many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design." Hirsch, as one who has taken the position that film noir is a genre, argues that these elements are present "in ...
- Italian Neorealism
Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo), also known as the...
- German Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry...
- Robert Siodmak
Early life. Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of...
- Stranger on The Third Floor
Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir...
- The Big Combo
The Big Combo is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by...
- Italian Neorealism
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.
Dec 16, 2019 · Set in 1948 Los Angeles, the film marries traditional noir tropes—red herrings, plot twists, femme fatales— with themes of race and class as Rawlins and his partner Mouse (Don Cheadle) search ...
Film Noir. In 1946, French film critics coined the term film noir , meaning black or dark film, to describe a newly emergent quality in wartime Hollywood films. At that time, the term signified an unexpected strain of maturity in contemporary American film, marking the end of a creatively ossified era and the beginning of a bold new one. By the ...
- The Prehistory of Noir
- The Classic Period
- Neo-Noir and Echoes of The Classic Mode
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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 ...
Below, we have Ebert’s ten essential comments, slightly abridged, on what “Film noir is…”. 1. A French term meaning “black film,” or film of the night. 2. A movie which at no time misleads you into thinking there is going to be a happy ending. 3.
Film noir 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. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the ...
