In the article, "The Neo-Noir 90s", Ansen and Tara tell us how after World War II "the French critics coined the term, film noir, to describe the crime-infested, shadow-draped, black-and-white movies."
When I think film noir, I think dark, dangerous, and mysterious. I picture city nights with tall buildings and pure black shadows in alleys with cats in trashcans and thieves lurking around.
Film noir ironically had its start during an age of peace and prosperity. Storytellers found a way to look around our overwhelmed nation and came up with a new world where “the lines between good and evil get crossed”; a world where you wouldn’t always be able to tell the difference between a super hero and a villain.
Many noir “vision” inspirations were from novelists like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cain and when it came to “visual style” most of it was imported from Europe by people who has experiences with different worlds to add history.
The classical period of film noir came to an end around the 50s and began to evolve into a more variations psychologically.
i like the way you said that when you think of film noir you picture a city at night "with tall building and pure black shadows in the alley.... etc. at first i didnt really know what noir was but by reading the article that our teacher passed out was a help. i think that you had a pretty good idea was well!
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