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The Expressionist Roots of Film Noir

The Expressionist Roots of Film Noir. The Nazi Threat (1933). Fear Abounds. German-Jewish Film Industry on the Move. Among the “ Emigres ”: Fritz Lang Billy Wilder Otto Preminger Edward G. Ulmer Carl Laemmle Ernst Lubitsch Max Ophuls. Fritz Lang. Billy Wilder. Otto Preminger.

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The Expressionist Roots of Film Noir

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  1. The Expressionist Roots of Film Noir

  2. The Nazi Threat (1933)

  3. Fear Abounds

  4. German-Jewish Film Industry on the Move Among the “Emigres”: Fritz Lang Billy Wilder Otto Preminger Edward G. Ulmer Carl Laemmle Ernst Lubitsch Max Ophuls

  5. Fritz Lang

  6. Billy Wilder

  7. Otto Preminger

  8. Edward G. Ulmer

  9. Q: What is meant by the term “B-Film”? A:A low-budget commercial motion picture that was intended for limited distribution.

  10. Characteristics of film noir texts:

  11. An Unlikely hero

  12. Detective anti-Hero

  13. Femme Fatale

  14. Snappy dialogue filled with innuendo "You wouldn't kill me in cold blood, would you?" "No, I'll let you warm up a little." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "She was a tramp." "She was a human being. And let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness." "From what I hear, she pursued it in all directions.“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Don't you need a coat?" "You'll do."

  15. CHIAROSCURO • LIGHT • SHADOW

  16. MODERNIST THEMES OF ALIENTATION AND ISOLATION

  17. POST-WAR ANGST

  18. ONEIRIC VISION “Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” Alfred Hitchcock

  19. CLAUSTROPHOBIC (VS. HARMONIC) SPACE

  20. THE CORRUPTING CITY

  21. Death as the ultimate denouement

  22. Q: How is noir different from gangster films? A: NOIR EXPLORES THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF THE CRIMINAL, ESSENTIALLY TELLING THE STORY FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE. GANGSTER FILMS ARE MORE SIMPLISTIC IN THIS REGARD.

  23. NOIR’S GOLDEN PERIOD:

  24. THE DEMISE OF NOIR:

  25. THE NEO-NOIR

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