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Images of Noir. Camera angles contribute to distorted world view. Guns, cigarettes, fedora hats and venetian blinds used as regular motifs. Chiaroscuro – still from ‘The Big Combo’ (1955). Chiaroscuro – lighting emphasises faces/helps us understand character’s behaviour or emotions.
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Camera angles contribute to distorted world view. Guns, cigarettes, fedora hats and venetian blinds used as regular motifs.
Chiaroscuro – lighting emphasises faces/helps us understand character’s behaviour or emotions
Housewife’s amoral behaviour emphasised by normal setting of supermarket being used to plan murder
Settings in Film Noir can vary from intensely claustrophobic and cluttered to looming and ominous. The characters can be confined by their surroundings or appear small and insignificant.