RULES OF FILM NOIR

MERT TÜRKMENL3C

Brief Information about Film Noir

• Describes stylish Hollywood crime dramas.• Classical Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally

regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. • Crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the

great depression.• Film noir's aesthetics are deeply influenced by German

Expressionism.

Characters

• Films noir tend to revolve around heroes who are more flawed and morally questionable than the norm.

• Characters appear in many films noir as • Hardboiled detectives,• Femme fatales• Corrupt policemen • Jealous husbands• Intrepid claims adjusters.

Visual Style

• The low-key lighting schemes of many classic film noirs are associated with stark light/dark contrasts.

• The shadows of, venetian blinds or banister rods, cast upon an actor, a wall, or an entire set, are an iconic visual in noir.

• use of low-angle, wide-angle, and skewed, or Dutch angles shots.

• Night-for-night shooting, as opposed to the Hollywood norm of day-for-night, was often employed.

Iconography

• Cigarettes• Rainy streets.• Shadows.• Mirrors• lipstick

Themes

• Crime/Murder• Ambiguity• Evil• Pessimism• Melancholy