Essays Tagged: "Film Noir"
Film Noir, a distinctly American genre, but with a French name.
1.Watch one of the cited German expressionist films. Write down the visual motifs you think film noir borrowed. Then watch a noir such as Double I ... e's estate, Xanadu, falls into ruins. Its monumental architecture dwarfs the people who inhabit the film. Inside Xanadu, rows of pillars recede into darkness. The hardened reporter tries to learn the ... ator with all the other "junk".1.2.Read the Introduction and first chapter, Towards a Definition of Film Noir, in the Film Noir Reader .3.Choose one or two of the films I mentioned from the 1930s gang ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
Show how the ways the author constructed one of the core texts helped you to understand the main ideas of the Blade Runner.
o be human. The author, Ridley Scott, has created one of the most thought provoking science fiction films since 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on Philip K Dick's novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric S ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on Philip K Dick's novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the film presents a world that is both similar and disturbingly different to the audience. Blade Runner ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
One of my favorite films is The Man Who Wasn't There.
One of my favorite films is The Man Who Wasn't There. It is done by the Coen brothers in the style of "Film Noir" a ter ... t There. It is done by the Coen brothers in the style of "Film Noir" a term meaning (black or dark) film. It was a common style used in the 50s gangster films and remains popular today. It stars Billy ... Thorton and a whole cast of great actors as well.First, Ed Crane is absent indeed in the movie, the film from the Coen brothers. The man that Billy Bob Thornton plays sees the world that surrounds him ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Analyse the representation of masculinity and femininity in one genre or body of work and discuss the portrial of black actros in Hollywood
analysis for this assignment is to be conducted on the following. The representation of black's in film and how they are portrayed by Hollywood. The way masculinity is portrayed by men in film and fe ... ollywood. The way masculinity is portrayed by men in film and femininity by women, the structure of Film Noir and its transformation into Film Neo-Noir, and how the physically and mentally impaired ar ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
Blade Runner: Machine will take over
its time in its amazing futuristic vision. Blade Runner is often referred to as a futuristic Film Noir due to its visual style. Lighting is usually the most distinctive feature of Film Noir, us ... cklighting runs through the entire length of Blade Runner. Location is another important element of Film Noir: Dark cities, inhabited by low life, seedy bars and nightclubs, pitch black alleys with su ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
New Hollywood Cinema (Scarface)
rface)The gangster movie has always been a favourite for most audiences since the early days of Film Noir. The reasons for the success of such films are due to the fact that they create an illusio ... ts such as violence, drugs, money, sex and flash cars are characteristic of this genre. The feature film Scarface written by Oliver Stone, directed by Brian De Palma is a 1983 Hollywood gangster film ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
TOPIC: "Gattaca supports the belief that nature, despite its flaws, is preferable to an error-free genetically engineered existence." Do you agree?
crooked?" (Ecclesiastes 7:13). Such is the opening quote and the thesis of director Andrew Nichol's film Gattaca (1997). Although the film is based on the lives of genetically engineered human beings ... it deeply criticises the values of a society of "valids" through its satirical tone and the use of film noir techniques. Gattaca not only supports the belief that nature, despite its flaws, is prefer ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
'Harry Lime appears late in the film, yet we feel his presence throughout the film.' How does the film-maker achieve this?
As is typical to the genre of Film Noir, Carol Reed's The Third Man is a film of suspense and intrigue, full of shadows and twisti ... ol Reed's The Third Man is a film of suspense and intrigue, full of shadows and twisting plots. The film's antagonist, Harry Lime, remains unseen during the first two thirds of The Third Man, however, ... n of soft lighting and harsh shadows, normally surrounding Holly who is ultimately Lime's alter ego.Film Noir essentially means Dark Cinema, and this applies to The Third Man with its use of shadows a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Black Elements in Taxi Driver
is Bickle, "Taxi Driver") These sad words keep echoing in my mind every time I finish watching this film. I am not sure whether it is exactly these words that make the film so classic that it did not ... , together with a pair of dark eyes, which reflect the blurred night view of the New York city, the film begins in such a ghostlike atmosphere that catches the hearts of all the audience. Thus the ton ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
'The Big Sleep' Film By Howard Hawkes, Review
Howard Hawke's latest film is an enthralling mix of intrigue, deception, corruption and self-interest. TBS is populated wi ... ers who exist within a black world represented through the shadowy confines of black and white that film noir is so suitable to represent. The strengths of TBS is in its fantastic dialogue which Hakes ... hanges Hawke's made in the process of adapting the big sleep from text to cinema that make this new film a trip to the cinemas.The Big Sleep has many inherent stereotypes, but it's modification of the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
SIN CITY: MOvie RevieW
r himself is co-director with Robert Rodriguez, who's already established his knack for atmospheric filmmaking.Appearing some 50 years after the heyday of film noir -- that dark 1940s and '50s genre t ... and '50s genre that specialized in urban crime, corruption and hopelessness -- Sin City is ultimate film noir. The mood in the mostly black-and-white drama is grimmer than Baton Rouge after an LSU Tig ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Sunset Blvd. and Film Noir
Film noir means "Black Cinema," it was a French label given to a Hollywood genre that developed in t ... The word black to describe this genre lets many darker things be explored in these movies. The 1950 film Sunset Blvd. by Billy Wilder fits the moods, characteristics, goals, and story of Film Noir.The ... nation, guilt, desperation, paranoia, ambiguous morals, and disillusionment; they are components of film noir. The very opening scene of Sunset Blvd. was a picture of a sidewalk with dried up leaves, ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Film Noir and German Expressionism in: "Batman" and "Citizen Kane"
In the films, "Batman" (1989), directed by Tim Burton, and "Citizen Kane" (1941), directed by Orson Welles, ... " (1941), directed by Orson Welles, there are many Codes and Structures of German Expressionism and Film Noir. The films show these through the institution of the American family, masculinity, history ... h the institution of the American family, masculinity, history of colonialism and colonization, and Film Noir and German Expressionism.In the film Batman, the institution on the American family is sim ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Memory Text Review: "Memento"
ento", directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano and Carrie-Anne Moss is a film noir, cinematic jigsaw puzzle about a man suffering from short-term memory loss inflicted the n ... in an effort to piece them together and hunt down the man responsible for destroying his life.This film is unique because of the way Nolan tells the story in reverse and through many fragmented scene ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"Blade Runner" and "Brave New World" Comparative Study
Aldous Huxley's novel 'Brave New World' and Ridley Scott's film 'Blade Runner', although different mediums, both explore the concept of 'In the Wild' by examin ... ne of nature that they are already witnessing in their own individual contexts through a variety of filmic and literary devices.'Blade' does not depict change, but escalation; every negative tendency ... amplified through unrelenting consumption of resources and destruction of natural environments. The film succeeds in challenging our understanding of the concept of 'In the wild' through the absence o ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Comparitive study of text and context: "Brave New World", written by Aldous Huxley, and "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott.
er", directed by Ridley Scott both explore futuristic dystopias. The composers use science fiction, film noir, satire and irony to depict futures which could develop from the issues relevant to their ... flames into the heavily polluted sky. A large eye is superimposed presenting power and perception. Filmed from below to emphasise its monolithic size, the Tyrell building is presented as a temple of ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Chinatown
The movie China Town, directed by Roman Polanski, is a non-traditional hard-nosed detective film made in the 70's. In the beginning, the film seems like any other detective films where the pro ... ulwray. Chinatown has formal elements indicative that it is going to be in the style of traditional Film Noir hardboiled detective, but as the movie goes, it becomes more apparent that this movie is n ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Long Goodbye
a affair of lust and deception. Based in Los-Angles of the early 70's of the twentieth century. The film is in the Film Noir (=Dark Movie) genre.Philip Marlowe isn't the classical film noir type, alth ... les wants. When he is offered a drink he will have any thing the other person is having, unlike the film noir hero who has his own distinctive drink.At the beginning of the film Philip Marlwe seems to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
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Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
The Big Heat analysis - expressionistic lighting, use of sets and decor, and costuming sharply reflected the personality traits of the film's major characters.
The Big Heat (1953) is a crime classic film noir and a violent melodrama directed by Fritz Lang. The screenplay of a potent story laced wit ... written by former crime reporter Sidney Boehm. The Big Heat is one of Hollywood fast-paced gangster films of the 50s, which had shocking public revelations about corruption and organized crimes in Ame ... stic lighting, use of sets and decor, and costuming sharply reflected the personality traits of the film's major characters.To begin with, “Somebody's Going to Pay...because he forgot to kill me. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis