Film Noir

Film noir
•‘Film noir’ is a cinematic term describing stylish Hollywood dramas, in particular those to do with moral ambiguity and sexual motivation.
• ‘film noir’ has said to have started from the 1940’s
•It is associated with low key black and white visual images, which roots back to the German expressionist cinematography, while many of the stories derive from the hard hitting crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the great depression.
•The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946
•The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury (1936) and You Only Live Once (1937), both directed by Fritz Lang, are considered full-fledged noir by some critics
•In the 50’s it moved to broadcasting on television
•Film Noir Is Also Known For Its Use Of Dutch Angles, Low Angle Shots And Wide Angle Lenses
•Film noirs tended to use low-key lighting schemes producing stark light/dark contrasts and dramatic shadow patterning
•Film noirs tend to have unusually convoluted story lines, frequently involving flashbacks, flashforwards, and other techniques that disrupt and sometimes obscure the narrative sequence.
•Crime, usually murder, is an element of almost all film noirs; in addition to standard-issue greed, jealousy is frequently the criminal motivation.
•Film noir is often described as essentially pessimistic