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May 31, 2023 · A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir contains the most extensive coverage yet of the US output of film noir, with entries on well over 2,000 US noirs and neonoirs. But the book goes far further than this, including entries on over a thousand films noirs from elsewhere around the world; in all, nearly sixty countries are represented--from ...
Nov 5, 2020 · 1. The use of the term films noirs to describe certain American films – John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Otto Preminger’s Laura, and Edward Dmytryk’s Murder, My Sweet – is generally held to date from an article by the Italian-born French critic and scriptwriter Nino Frank in August 1946 (Citation 1946, Citation 1999).
- Marco Paoli, Barbara Pezzotti
- 2020
Oct 8, 2018 · Andrew Spicer. Routledge, Oct 8, 2018 - Performing Arts - 260 pages. Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates ...
- Andrew Spicer
- Routledge, 2018
- 1317875036, 9781317875031
- Film NoirInside Film
Moscow Noir: With Adam Pålsson, Karolina Gruszka, Linda Zilliacus, Georg Nikolloff. In turn-of-the-21st-century Moscow, an innocent trade plunges Swedish investment banker, Tom Blixen, into a battle with millionaires, politicians, oligarchs and their private armies.
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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 MachineThomas Mergel, Parlamentarische Kultur in Der Weimarer Republik: Politische Kommunikation, Symbolische Politik Und ̈ffentlichkeit Im Reichstag, Beitr̈ge Zur Geschichte Des Parlamentarismus Und Der Politischen Parteien, Bd. 135 (D̈sseldorf: Droste, 2002).
About This Book. Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context, describing ...
