Sunday, April 28, 2013

Film Noir


Film Noir  

·      a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous atmosphere that is conveyed by shadowy photography and foreboding background music

·      A movie characterized by low-key lighting, a bleak urban setting, and corrupt, cynical characters

·      a motion picture genre marked by grim urban settings, cynical, bleakly pessimistic characters, and starkly shadowed photography

·      Film genre that offers dark or fatalistic interpretations of reality. The term is applied to U.S. films of the late 1940s and early '50s that often portrayed a seamy or criminal underworld and cynical characters. The films were noted for their use of stark, expressionistic lighting and stylized camera work, often employed in urban settings






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