PPT-Elements of Film Noir From the French, meaning “black Film” or “Film of the Night”

HUM 110 Introduction to American Film JC Clapp North Seattle College Historical Context World War II postwar disillusionment 1940s Soldiers returning home and women losing their jobs Postwar realism audiences wanted authenticity and realistic. Explicit. Generalizations included in a text about one or more of its subjects. Explicit meanings are sometimes thought as flawed in Western storytelling, because these audiences like meanings to be suggested and not explained. Charles . Higham. and Joel Greenberg. ‘. Noir . Cinema’ (1968). And Billy Wilder’s . Double Indemnity. (1944). Noir . ambience: a dark street in the early morning hour; a dark street washed with a sudden downpour; haloes on lamps; a neon sign across the street; a man waiting to murder or be murdered. Today. :. What is the . film noir . genre?. Start watching “Gaslight”. Film Noir. A term used post WWII to describe early 1940s movies that were cynical and had dark themes. French for “black cinema”. Comparative Study. American Film – . Comparative Study. Context. Why are the classic noir films obsessed with the femme fatale?. Why are the male protagonists usually loners?. Why is the look of the films so stylised?. Films of the 1940s and the genre of film noir. Films during this time were often dramatic, melodramatic, or considered a film noir. Other genres like the musical and comedies were around still too.. WWII influenced what was made in Hollywood since it was a dark time in the US and films reflected it.. Films funded outside of Big Hollywood Studios or Films that are made with an “independent spirit”. Birth of a Nation. DW Griffith. Thomas Dixon. 1915. Extremely Racist—pro . Klu. Klux Clan . Griffith just thought it was presenting the Southern perspective. Film completely black including Film has overlapping images. Exposed film has the camera again. None Identify exposed films with label or Film has cone into contact with another surface and developm composing the scenes. Battleship Potemkin. - Sergei Eisenstein. Battleship Potemkin.  . is . a . 1925 silent film.  directed . by Sergei Eisenstein.  . . It . presents a dramatized version of . the mutiny . Keenan Parra. Beverly Ramos. Vivek. Reddy. Chris Ruiz. Daniel Yi . History of Film Noir. French phrase meaning “black film”. Film Noir was identified in 1946 following World War II and the German occupation of France. Made in the U.S.A.. American films produced by Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. B movies. Common themes of loneliness, alienation, despair, violence. Character types: Anti social loner and femme fatale. -Two “sets” of American films after the ending of WWII:. Nostalgic film: old myths promulgated by earlier films: ideas of . nostalgia. , principles of self-sufficiency and . manifest destiny. , Jeffersonian . Today. :. What is the . film noir . genre?. Start watching “Gaslight”. Film Noir. A term used post WWII to describe early 1940s movies that were cynical and had dark themes. French for “black cinema”. Detective films. Banned in occupied countries during the war. Noir refers to the low key lighting. Disenchantment, Doom . Cynical times. Great Depression 1930’s. World War II. Atomic Warfare. McCarthyism . The usage of plastic agricultural films is growing every day globally especially in India in the agricultural tarpaulin films market. Four types of agricultural films like - geomembrane films, silage films & sheets, mulch films, and greenhouse films.