We skimmed through these books to give us inspiration about what we would do.
- Low key, black and white visual style
- roots in German expressionist cinematography
- derives from crime fiction of United States during the Great Depression.
- central figure is often a private eye (The Big Sleep 1946)
- a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat)
- an aging boxer (The Set Up)
- a hapless grifter (Night and the City)
- a law abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy)
- simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A)
- gives pleasure by making us uncomfortable: anxiety, vulnerability and fright are all part of the thill
- women are all usually virgins or vamps
- film noir is a cultural phenomenon
- strong female characters who disturb the men's world
- has evolved in to Neo-Noir (Memento)
- characters faces often partly shadowed to create hidden threatening spaces
- often sleazy milieu of claustrophobic alleyways or deserted spaces alternating with gaudy nightclubs and swank apartments
- high contrast lighting
We worked on this in the lesson.
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