CHECK THESE SAMPLES OF Women in film Noir
Name Instructor Course Date film noir: Double Indemnity and Brick Double Indemnity Double Indemnity is a skeptical, entertaining, and immoral thriller exposing infidelity, dishonesty and manslaughter, and directed by Billy Wilder in 1944 after deriving it from a hard-boiled novel story taken from Three of a Kind by James Cain in 1943.... Brick Brick film was produced in 2005 and was written and directed by Rian Johnson that embodies a lot of visual traits of classic film noir and has a very dark plot....
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Essay
Movies, which appeared after the World War II were defined as noir films.... The genres associated with the term “noir” are psychological thrillers and those crime stories.... The main characteristic feature of all the films to which the term “noir” is applied is visual effects.... The introduction of antihero is a very important characteristic of noir style.... The noir films were created in 1940 -1950 until the new term was introduced....
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Assignment
The femme fatale has become an increasingly fetishized and sexually rapacious figure over the history of film, and this process will be explored by considering two films in detail, Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) and Basic Instinct.... The film industry more or less accepted the strictures of the Code until the late 1960's.... The femme fatale in this film is named Phyllis Dietrichson, and was played in a an Oscar-winning performance by Barbara Stanwyck....
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Book Report/Review
This essay "Historical Film Movement 'film noir' as the Forerunner of the Present-day Crime and Action Movies" focuses on the early forties, European film talent infiltrated the American industry, and in this influx was a new type of mystery/suspense movie known as the film noir.... hellip; film noir was a style of black and white American films that became prominent in the post-war era.... The primary moods of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia....
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Essay
Primarily, the film is still remembered as a trendsetter in the genre of mid-twentieth-century film noir (Palmer, 1994) developed in the format of a stylized crime drama combining sexual motivations, alienations of urban life, and psychological twists.... 18), which represents classic noir trickery.... An essay "film Analysis: Cinematic and Literary Influences" outlines that referring to the literary genre, the theme of Double Indemnity is largely based on crime thriller (Chandler, 2002)....
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To be specific, WWII transformed gender roles within the mainstream society and it is evident in the portrayal of main characters within Hollywood… For instance, higher education, scope of professional jobs, role in the public domain etc transformed the female gender role in the society.... On the other side, the return of war veterans to their families created problems within their public domains and they were not ready to Besides, post-war cultural changes affected the society as a whole and this is evident in the portrayal of male and female protagonists in general....
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The film is a good example of the lasting effect of film noir's impact.... hinatown was released at the time when film noir had long gone.... The film is a good example of the lasting effect of film noir's impact.... Also, the Chinese happen to receive all the racism attacks in the film noir....
All these attributes of the style of the film noir are present in the work of Roman Polyansky, and first of all - the motive of evil destiny, embodied in the obsession of the hero about the inevitable defeat in the accursed Chinatown....
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This work called "film noir" describes classic Hollywood crime dramas that were made during the '40s and '50s.... From this work it is clear about some examples of film noir such as The Setup and the Big Sleeper and some contemporary examples are Twelve Monkeys and Seven.... film noir is primarily characterized by dark visual that matches the theme and the plot of the movie.... is one of the best examples of a film noir as it embodies all characteristics and elements of one....
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