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I made this because it was homework. screenshot for "long shot" is taken from the film 'How I Ended This Summer'.

Summer Task // Film Noir

Black Cinema 

Film Noir (translated literally as black cinema) as a genre refers to a period of stylish Hollywood crime drama ranging from the early 40’s to the late 50’s, famous examples of the genre include Carol Reed’s  ‘The third man’ (1949) and John Huston’s  ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (1941). Films of the genre typically encapsulated dark, cynical narratives based on crime fiction novels of the great depression containing moody detectives with swanky hats and seductive ‘Femme fatales’ with cigarette addictions, as well as a low key black and white aesthetic borrowed from German expressionistic cinema  and a taste for the smoothest of jazz.

Both La Confidential and La Noire were produced long after the classic period of Film Noir, but as may be clear from the setting, character types and the themes presented within the short clips they are both in debt to the classic genre. They conform in very similar ways to the conventions of the film noir genre from the gritty urban location, 1940’s time period and jazzy soundtrack. They bear a common resemblance to the cynical attitudes classic to the film noir genre as the narrators scoff at the idea of Los Angeles as some form of urban paradise, although this is more evident in the La Confidential clip, a self-referential nod to film noir commonly used in many other neo-noir’s. 

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