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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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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.
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In a vigesimal place system, twenty individual numerals (or digit symbols) are used, ten more than in the decimal system. One modern method of finding the extra needed symbols is to write ten as the letter A, or A20 , where the 20 means base 20, to write nineteen as J20, and the numbers between with the corresponding letters of the alphabet. This i...
As 20 is divisible by two and five and is adjacent to 21, the product of three and seven, thus covering the first four prime numbers, many vigesimal fractions have simple representations, whether terminating or recurring (although thirds are more complicated than in decimal, repeating two digits instead of one). In decimal, dividing by three twice ...
The prime factorization of twenty is 22 × 5, so it is not a perfect power. However, its squarefree part, 5, is congruent to 1 (mod 4). Thus, according to Artin's conjecture on primitive roots, vigesimal has infinitely many cyclicprimes, but the fraction of primes that are cyclic is not necessarily ~37.395%. An UnrealScript program that computes the...
In several European languages like French and Danish, 20is used as a base, at least with respect to the linguistic structure of the names of certain numbers (though a thoroughgoing consistent vigesimal system, based on the powers 20, 400, 8000 etc., is not generally used).
Counting in units of twenty
This table shows the Maya numerals and the number names in Yucatec Maya, Nahuatl in modern orthography and in Classical Nahuatl.
Chrisomalis, Stephen (2010-01-18). Numerical Notation: A Comparative History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 135–136. ISBN 978-0-521-87818-0.
Karl Menninger: Number words and number symbols: a cultural history of numbers; translated by Paul Broneer from the revised German edition. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1969 (also available in p...Levi Leonard Conant: The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development; New York, New York: Macmillan & Co, 1931. Project Gutenberg EBookDec 8, 2020 · The Black Book: Directed by Valeria Sarmiento. With Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam. A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.
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Mar 8, 2024 · March 8, 2024. Introduction. Film noir was an incredibly popular genre of film primarily in the United States that was heavily influenced by French and German film, as the term is French for ‘black film.’.
Jun 27, 2021 · What is film noir? Film noir is a stylized genre of film marked by pessimism, fatalism, and cynicism. The term was originally used in France after WWII, to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s and 50s.
Aug 18, 2020 · The Petrified Forrest (Archie Mayo, 1936) I. The Look of Noir. The traditional history of film noir’s visual style holds that it replaced the classical high key (low contrast) three point lighting, use of day-for-night, shallow focus and normal length lenses, with low key and imbalanced lighting, deep focus and use of wide lenses, as well as the use of extreme angles and ‘dissymmetrical ...
