FIST 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paul Schrader, Poetic Realism, Psychoanalysis
Document Summary
Phases (paul schrader) a group of films between 1941-1958. Identified in france (black films) - by french critics when occupational time ended. Recognizable visual style, and subject matter, dark underbelly of american society. Blend of realism and expressionism, sense of stylization. Product of transitional postwar american, more films made from outside of america. Wartime (1941-1946): hard-boiled tradition era, higher budget, big stars, 80"s feel, studio sets, pi and lone wolf. Postwar (1945-1949): more realistic, less romantic, shot on real locations, more working class/urban vibe/city, proletarian directors. Psychotic (1949-1953): protagonists are killers/instead of detective figure become more deranged, b-noir, psychoanalytic, self-aware, post-hardboiled, fatalistic, embraced meaninglessness. After 1953- there were just a couple film noir after that/stragglers, less polished/neat and tidy as time went on. Influx of german expats (frits lang, billy wilder, otto preminger) Directors coming from europe to the us to show the darker world over in europe. 1930s hard boiled writing: realistic detective fiction with own set of conventions.
