As a cinematic genre dating back to the mid 1930's, film noir isgenerally defined as a dark, suspenseful thriller with a plotline revolvingaround crime or mystery. Following World War II, film noir gained muchrecognition when Hollywood thrillers, such as The Maltese Falcon (1941)with Humphrey ...

\"Double Indemnity\" is a classic example of the film noir style and also set some standards for movies to come. This paper will provide examples and show that the following film realized the success of this flick. Film noir is not necessarily a type of genre but rather a tone that branched of from ...

"Mulholland Drive is a place where dreams and nightmares meet." David Lynch What do an aspiring actress, a beautiful stranger, a frustrated film director, a sinister cowboy, a gritty assassin, and a scary sorcerer all have in common? They are all the key characters in master cult dir...

The Big Sleep The Film Noir period occurred in America from 1941 to 1958. The term "Film Noir" which translates into "black" or "dark cinema" alludes to its common themes of urban crime and violence, cultural decay, and corruption. Story lines for these films can also contain sarcastic or satiric...

The Matrix (1999) is an extension of the existentialist motifs of the mid 20th Century set in the 23rd, for its obvious influences from the American Noir Style. This is apparent when looking at the five points of this existentialism. First, Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves), a.k.a. \"Neo,\" is por...

"There is indeed a dream-like quality to the convolutions of the narrative". [Walker: 1993 (ed. Cameron)] Walker made this comment on the film "The Big Sleep" (1946), yet it can easily be applied to other early film noir, such as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), and "S...

INTRODUCTION. I have always been fascinated with the dark side. That is not to say that I bow down to Beelzebuub, or Darth Vader for that matter; but as an adolescent immersed in horror movies and thrash metal music, it became apparent to me that the dark side was infinitely more interesting. ...

What were some of the elements of film noir in the 1940's and 50's and can they be seen as symptomatic of cultural anxieties? Film noir is a French label on the American film phenomenon. It wasn't until Post-war France that they could see many American films. The French observed th...

David De SouzaComm. 3073/12/01Unit Two filmsNow, VoyagerIn "Now, Voyager" Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale, the spinster daughter of an domineering, high-society Boston matron. Charlotte is so completely under her mother's thumb that, in her first scene, we see her hiding cigarettes from her mother ...

"The Horrifying Cycle""She falls into his arms for a passionate embrace and... Then, suddenly the a black-clad figure in the shadows startle Judy. She backs away from Scottie gasping: "Oh, no!" Terrified, thinking she is seeing the ghost of Madeleine Judy recoils, steps and falls backward thr...