FILM NOIR
What is Film Noir
Film Noir is Hollywood's only and oldest organic artistic movement that is today seen as an iconic genre.
When did Film Noir Start
Most dominant in the 1940s mostly after the second world war when audiences were looking for something fresh and vivid they responded well to this type of adult oriented film making it a success and continually allowed writers and directors who were eager to bring more adult themed films to Hollywood to do so.
Who brought about Film Noir
Film Noir was heavily based around the Americans hard boiled crime fiction but was bought about by Europeans 'emigre' directors who's storytelling sensibility: highly stylized, overtly theatrical, with imagery often drawn from an earlier era of German “expressionist” cinema. Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, and Otto Preminger, among others, were among this Hollywood revolution.
Few, if any of the artists in Hollywood who made these films called them “Noir” at the time.
Why is Film Noir so important to media community
Film Noir was most influential in a time of distress world wide and many felt they could relate to the dark senses of Film Noir. Furthermore, the vivid co-mingling of lost innocence, doomed romanticism, desperate desire, and shadowy sexuality that was unleashed in those immediate post-war years proved hugely influential, both among industry peers in the original era, and to future generation of Film lovers.
Below is an Extract of one of Film Noir most iconic movies; The Big Sleep
An adaptation from the hugely successful book by Raymond Chandler, it en-campuses all elements of Film Noir excellently. In this extract it is mainly about the portrayal of females and how certain things like glasses can change the ideals of a woman.
SOURCE: http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/filmnoir.html
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