COMS 354 Lecture 6: COMS 354 Nov 7
27 Mar 2018
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Interrogation scene, murder scene: use stills as much as you can (like screenshots, exam, all terms and people we"ll be asked to recognize are on the powerpoint. Poertic realism : noir style: noir lighting, cameraman john alton, american hard-boiled detective tradition, comes out of pulp magazines (cheap fiction mags like black mask of the. 1920s: dashiell hammett, creator of sam spade , author of the maltese falcon wanted to make a character that was romantically and sexually involved. Is film noir a genre: no, because film noir style may be seen in many genres: westerns, melodramas, etc, yes, if we follow the def of genre: recurrent iconography and recurrent situations of characters, most people say no. Is film noir a movement: no, because film noir never died, continually reinvents itseld, yes because film noir is limited to time period c . 1940-1958 everything since then is revival, pastiche, something different.
