noir after the forties
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Noir after the forties. Context of forties. Disillusionment with American Dream – depression, war, etc Gender issues Hays code German and Eastern European influence Edward Hopper images of American life. Other aspects of Forties Noir. Studio-bound look to the genre - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Noir after the forties
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Context of forties
• Disillusionment with American Dream – depression, war, etc• Gender issues• Hays code• German and Eastern European
influence• Edward Hopper images of American life
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Other aspects of Forties Noir
• Studio-bound look to the genre• Contrast to the colourful musicals of
the era• B-movies• Psychoanalysis popular leads to
interest in character motivation
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Why the French name?
• Post war influx of American films to French market
• French film critics, e.g. Francois Truffaut & Andre Bazin begin to analyse the style, content and ideology of the films
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How does Noir evolve?• Lighter cameras lead to greater use of location
shooting
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Scarlet Street – Fritz Lang 1945
Studio-bound artificial lighting
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Killer’s Kiss – Stanley Kubrick 1955
Naturalistic, location lighting
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• Jazz music becomes more prominent in soundtrack
• Times change – style follows
• Different generation and attitudes
• Cold war paranoia creeps in as a theme
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1958 - The ‘end’ of Noir
• Touch of Evil – Orson Welles 1958
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1970s Noir pastiche
• Chinatown – Roman Polanski 1974
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1980s – Noir parody
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid – Carl Reiner 1982
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Neo-noir
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Key features of Neo-Noir• A ‘knowingness’ to convention• Deliberately retro look - postmodern attitude• Sometimes deliberate subversion of the noir
‘rules’• References to the classic noir past• Playfulness• Often a critique of consumer society more than
fully serious psychological exploration• Freedom to indulge in the amorality denied the
classic noirs
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Crossing genre boundaries
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A Neo noir film?