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World War Ii 20 Th Century
2,462 wordsForty years after Raymond Borde and tienne Chaumeton defined the challenge, critical commentators on film noir continue to grapple with it. Ironically, American writers did not immediately take up consideration of this indigenous phenomenon and the question of its "essential traits. " Only gradually in a frequently cross-referenced series of essays in the 1970 s did they begin to express themselves. There are now a dozen full-length books in English concerning film noir and undoubtedly more to f...
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Film Noir Classic Period
2,461 words... or of Evil (MGM, 1948), Framed (Columbia, 1947), Out of the Past (RKO, 1947), The Pitfall (United Artists, 1948), and The Unsuspected (Warner Bros. , 1947) and discover that eight different directors, cinematographers, and screenwriters adapted different original stories for different stars at eight different studios. These people of great and small technical reputations created eight otherwise unrelated motion pictures with one cohesive style. 3 I have previously contended that the noir cyc...
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Violence And Crime Femme Fatale
1,296 wordsOn the Dark Side: Fight Club & Neo-Noir In Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) the director, Fincher, presents the elements that are essential in a Neo-Noir film. The most obvious of the characteristics is the dark overtone of the film. Fight Club is mostly set in night or in shadows as are most noir films. The other obvious characteristic of Neo-Noir is the voice over narration. Voice over narration is when a voice off screen is doing a narration of what is happening on screen. This narration is p...
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L A Confidential Film Noir
957 wordsL. A Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) is a neo-noir film about a shooting at an all night diner and the three Las Angeles policeman who investigate in their own unique ways. It is based on the book by James Ellroy and after a very well adapted screenplay, won nine academy awards. It starred actors with big names like Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Danny Devito, which made it a very high earning film. The Narrative or storyline is much the same as any other film noir movie. It has a 'hard boiled...
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Black And White Maltese Falcon
632 wordsIn my opinion, The Maltese Falcon is the best example of the detective story of the early years of XX century, which was followed by the creation of movie. Written in 1930, The Maltese Falcon creates its own rules and style for detective fiction. It was a groundbreaking book, offering up a style of writing that most had not seen before. Hammett wrote as if everyone wanted to talk: smooth, assured, and witty. He wrote with a graceful masculinity that made being bad beautiful. He created a world w...
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Titus Andronicus Revenge Tragedy
707 wordsTitus Andronicus There is an opinion that Shakespeare couldnt write Titus Andronicus. The arguments against Shakespeare's authorship seem to be not only esthetic. The person, who wrote this tragedy, piled up plenty of murders and villainous acts. The tragedy is full of grandiloquent phrases, false pathos, clamorous and garish recitation. Psychological motivation of the characters actions is either primitive, or absent. It is difficult to deny these facts. Titus Andronicus indeed has nothing in c...
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Fell In Love One Of The Greatest
824 wordsMovie review: Detour Outline: 1. Detour by Edgar G. Ulmer as a classic example of film noir of 1940 s. 2. The films short summary and the main characters. 3. The process of films production: 3. 1 Screenplay; 3. 2 Some foreground and background techniques; 3. 3 Stylistic imperfections of Detour. 4. Conclusion. Detour is a classic film noir of 1945, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Film noir is a term used in cinema basicly to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize m...
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Cold War Tensions House Un American Activities Committee
2,073 wordsThe Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and cultural life from 1946 -- when Winston Churchill announced the descent of an Iron Curtain separating the Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellite states from the non-communist West -- to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The influence on the American film industry was deep and long-lasting. Hollywood became a highly visible target of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the late 1940 s and 195...
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Black And White Maltese Falcon
2,037 wordsThe Maltese Falcon In my opinion, The Maltese Falcon is the best example of the detective story of the early years of XX century, which was followed by the creation of movie. Written in 1930, The Maltese Falcon creates its own rules and style for detective fiction. It was a groundbreaking book, offering up a style of writing that most had not seen before. Hammett wrote as if everyone wanted to talk: smooth, assured, and witty. He wrote with a graceful masculinity that made being bad beautiful. H...
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Hard Boiled Keyes Walter
320 wordsIn comparison to which a preferred more, I would prefer the movie over the novel. Combining the theatrical elements of Hollywood film noir, Chandlers (screen-writer) dialogue skills, and Cains hard-boiled style, the film gives a better insight to the triangular relationship between Phyllis, Walter, and Keyes. In the film, we see that Walter is in a never-ending conflict to assert himself over Phyllis, and at the same time, to become more intimate with Keyes. Through the dialogues extensive use o...
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Black And White Film Noir
4,098 wordsEXISTENTIALISM IN FILM I could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a certain genre of film being made in America during the late forties and early fifties perhaps deserves credit for treating very early, if not for the first time, subject matter and...
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World War Ii Femme Fatale
2,526 wordsFilm Noir Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir, and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up. (Schrader 2). The United States of America emerged from World War II drastically different from when they entered. The American society had changed in every aspect, even the American ideology differed from earlier ages. These changes had cultural impact, and in the middle of these confused times there occurred something previously unseen in the magical world of celluloid...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
2,898 wordsFilm noir is one of the most beloved and popular &# 34; period&# 34; film genres of the late twentieth century, although at the time that the movies comprising the genre were made, the term film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean &# 34; black film&# 34; a variation on the nineteenth-century French critical term roman noir, or &# 34; black novel&# 34; referring to any number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime dramas of the 1940 s and 1950 s. At the time they were made, the movies were ...
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World War Ii Film Noir
4,884 wordsForty years after Raymond Borde and? tienne Chaumeton defined the challenge, critical commentators on film noir continue to grapple with it. Ironically, American writers did not immediately take up consideration of this indigenous phenomenon and the question of its essential traits. Only gradually in a frequently cross-referenced series of essays in the 1970 s did they begin to express themselves. There are now a dozen full-length books in English concerning film noir and undoubtedly more to fol...
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Red Wine Mailing List
771 wordsTo look at it, youd think that La Cafe is the most utterly charming eatery imaginable. It feels like you have stepped into a Paris time capsule, some bistro in a neighborhood that hasnt changed a whit since the French Revolution. La Cafe is a rendezvous place. The place is tiny, just 32 seats at 12 tables and the decor is at once classic and whimsical. Portions of faux cottages jut from the walls, the tilted roofs just lopsided enough to make you check your bearings. French and European adornmen...
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Humphrey Bogart Maltese Falcon
1,137 wordsThe mysterious legend of the Maltese Falcon unfolds as the opening scene reveals the origin of the jewel-encrusted black statue. Its history dates back ages, and it is said to have disappeared after a struggle at sea, with its whereabouts unknown. The black and white screen slowly provides a transition into the office, and intricate life of private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart). As the dialogue starts fast and furiously, a story involving murder, greed and betrayal unfolds on screen. This movi...
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Noir Lighting Style Bright Sunny Day Dark
364 wordsMy Darling Clementine to me didnt stick out as a particularly dark movie. I will agree that there were a lot of dark scenes in it but not enough to distract me toward the idea of this being a particularly dark film as a whole. However the dark noir lighting style that was used to bring the night scenes to life certainly added something to it. Usually when I think of film noir, I tend to think of movies like Batman. There the lighting reflects the moral and physical issues behind the motives of t...
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