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GENRE

GENRE. = type or category that most films fit most comfortably in. These formulas were crystallized in the Classical Hollywood period (1917-1960)and still define how most movies are made and marketed today. Samples of Genres. western. Gangster/crime. Science fiction. musicals.

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GENRE

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  1. GENRE = type or category that most films fit most comfortably in. These formulas were crystallized in the Classical Hollywood period (1917-1960)and still define how most movies are made and marketed today.

  2. Samples of Genres western Gangster/crime Science fiction musicals

  3. Film Noir Characteristics • “dark” or “black” film • a style, not a genre (scholastically, although this is debated) • Influenced visually and thematically by German Expressionism (sense of impending and utter fatalism) and French films of 1930s • Popular pulp novelists: Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler • Influenced by Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) • Atmosphere and morality of film noir is obscure and ambiguous

  4. Film Noir

  5. Film Noir Characteristics Cont’d: • Greed, corruption, lust, violence, and horror • Plots often convoluted • Hero is outlaw, misfit, or jaded gumshoe (private eye) – “lone wolf” • “Femme fatale” (do NOT trust this woman!) • Corrupt politician, crooked cop, bad girl, insane killer • Settings are often urban (night, dirty streets, run-down buildings)

  6. “Femme fatale” (do NOT trust this woman!)

  7. Visual Style • - Tend to use dramatic shadows, stark contrast, low-key lighting, and black-and-white rather than color • - Typical film shot in a 10:1 ratio of dark to light (typical movie is 3:1 ratio) • - shot on location in cities, night time shooting was common to get that really dark look • - Shadows of Venetian blinds, dramatically cast upon an actor's face as he or she looks out a window, are a commonly used visual in film noir. • - known for its use of low angle shots and wide angle lenses. • - include shots of people in mirrors, shots through a glass, and multiple exposures.

  8. - shot on location in cities, night time shooting was common to get that really dark look

  9. - Tend to use dramatic shadows, stark contrast, low-key lighting, and black-and-white rather than color

  10. Shadows of Venetian blinds

  11. Classical Film Noir • The Maltese Falcon (1941) • Key Largo (1948) • The Asphalt Jungle (1950) • Shadow of a Doubt (1943) • Notorious (1946) • Strangers on a Train (1951) • The Wrong Man (1956) • Touch of Evil (1958)

  12. Classic Period (1940s and 1950s )

  13. Neo-Noir

  14. Neo-Noir Examples/Recommendations: • Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) • Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976) • Body Heat (Kasdan, 1981) • Blade Runner (R. Scott, 1981) • The Grifters (Frears, 1990) • Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992) • The Last Seduction (Dahl, 1994) • Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) • Fargo (Coen, 1996) • L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997) • Collateral (Mann, 2004)

  15. Other Neo-Noir Examples: • Scarface (DePalma, 1983) • The Untouchables (DePalma, 1987) • Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991) • Basic Instinct (Verhoeven, 1992) • Muholland Falls (Tamahori, 1996) • Sin City (Rodriguez, 2005) • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Black, 2005) • Brick (Johnson, 2005)

  16. Chinatown (1974)

  17. About Film Noir • “The most 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.” - Roger Ebert

  18. Double Indemnity (1944)

  19. Billy Wilder (1906-2002)

  20. Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990)

  21. Fred MacMurray (1908-1991)

  22. Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973)

  23. Assignment While viewing Double Indemnity (1944), create a list of film noir characteristics (at least 5 and describe examples) and visual elements (at least five) evident in the film..

  24. Film Journal • 25 pts • Watch a film noir (classical or neo-noir) and discuss what characteristics of film noir are evident in the film. • ½ pg – 1 pg in length

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