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 ID: 340638
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Film Studies PPT #2
Films of the 1940s and the genre of film noirSlide2
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.
Stars like Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Abbott and Costello, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and many others.And films like: Bambi, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Citizen Kane and many others.
Films of the 1940s
Genres and starsSlide3
Crime dramas or others with a dark/cynical mood
1940s to 1950s
Influenced by German expressionist cinematography by using low-key black and white visual style (very dark hence noir)The term, by the way, was not accepted until the 1970sUsually melodramatic in acting but also can have melodramatic elements like music, recognition, and in other story elements.Often features stereotypical characters like the femme fatale (a mysterious and seductive woman), or the private eye (or investigator)
Often, but not always, takes place in a city
Film Noir
CharacteristicsSlide4
The Big Sleep
(1946) with Humphrey Bogart
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=VjJlBnfyiI4The Maltese Falcon
(1941) with Humphrey Bogarthttp://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=phUxnXGhEiI
Classic Film NoirsSlide5
Casablanca
(1942) Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=pa-dGYjSq5kDouble Indemnity (1944) Barbara
Stanwyckhttp://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=S3wjJcuGsVE
Film Noirs cont’dSlide6
The Third Man
(1949) with Orson Welles
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=8i47-QBL4QoSunset Boulevard (1950) with William Holden
http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=xzYqUpV_B-A
Film noirs cont’dSlide7
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Directed by Michael
Curtiz
Film Noir
about a long-suffering mother and her ungrateful
daughter
Joan Crawford (the main character who plays the mother) won an academy award for best actress.
Tells the story in the third-person in chronological order
in flashback with
voice-over narration from the main character’s perspective.
This is also a crime drama.