Film Noir

Introduction

Film Noir is a film Genre coined by Frank Nino who noticed the darkness and downbeat theme of American films . It is the style that most black and white American films possess as early as the 1940s . It lasted in the classical golden age post war-era until 1960s . Noir is argued not only as a film genre but rather a cinematic style , tone and point of view in a film . This is also noted as one historical distinct period of film history

A motion picture can easily be distinguished as a

Noir based on the title itself . It can easily be identified through the tone based on the choice of words presented in the title . Most films talk about cruelty and action stories presented in great American literary works and novels . One who happens to watch Film Noir can easily relate and connect it to other film genres like thriller , horror or science-fiction films

It is also important to examine the elements of a film that would classify it as a noir . The visual themes , plot , structure , narrative devices , character and settings are important elements to be examined in to distinguish noirs from other film genres . Moreover , it is also substantial to consider the underlying message of noirs that differentiate this genre and cinematic technique from other conventional motion pictures and cinematographies

The Etymology and Definition of Film Noir

Noir is a French term for black ' which gives people the concept of 'dark film . It is also called film of the night , inspired by the Series Noir , a line of cheap backs that translated hard-boiled American crime authors and found a popular audience in France (Ebert 1995 . It was coined by French critics after World War II . The year was 1940 when France was occupied by the Nazis and were not allowed to accept any Hollywood products . After the war , backlog of American movies which hit French viewers suddenly in one rush , rather than gradually over the years as usual . From a Hollywood point of view they 'd been an audience asleep for half a decade (Westcombe , 2003 This wass argued as black film since it gave viewers the notion that no happy ending was expected . Noir also refers to the night as a time frame of scenes and the usual back doors and fancy places as settings Relationships in which love is only the final flop card in the poker game of death (Ebert , 1995 . Film noir is also considered as the dominant American film genre , because no society could have created a world so filled with doom , fate , fear and betrayal , unless it were essentially naive and optimistic (Ebert , 1995

Film Noir is the flip side of the all-American success story . It 's about people who realize that following the program will never get them what they crave . So they cross the line , commit a crime and reap the consequences . Or , they 're tales about seemingly innocent people tortured by paranoia and ass-kicked by Fate . Either...