YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Film Noir Genre
Essays 1 - 30
be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...
somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...
In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...
of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...
the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...
This paper consists of 5 pages discusses how film noir and classical Hollywood were influenced by Tourner's 1947 film. There are ...
and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
Opposing Arguments Petrakis (2010) is completely right when he writes: "the screenplay is simplistic and uninteresting, lea...
This film analysis is on "When Harry Met Sally," 1989, directed by Rob Reiner. The writer asserts that the specific genre for this...
In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...
in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...
father, but the two young men are not fond of each other, at least not on the surface (Maslin, 2002). Thomas, who chatters incessa...
as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...
"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...