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Neo-noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As Film Noir can be seen as an early parallel to independent films granted the lack of attention that studios paid to many noir projects, it's fitting that many neo-noir films are independent. Neo-noir is a term given to the modern trend of incorporating aspects of film noir into films of other genres. List of films noir including examples of neo-noir. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neo-noir   (215 words)

Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era, (many films noir were adaptations of such novels), and may first be clearly seen in films released in the early 1940s. Noir films, traditionally black and white, tended to include dramatic shadows and stark contrast—using low-key lighting and black-and-white film, typically resulting in a 10:1 ratio of dark to light, rather than the more typical 3:1 ratio. Noir turned all this on its head, creating bleak but intelligent dramas tinged with nihilism, mistrust, paranoia and cynicism, in real-life urban settings, and using unsettling techniques such as the confessional voice-over or hero's-eye-view camerawork. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir   (2191 words)

Welcome to MIT Program in Women's Studies Neo noir takes the formula of classic noir and integrates new ideas and influence from contemporary film styles to provide a new spin on the loneliness and uncertainty that is felt by many of the young and disenfranchised of today (Robson). Considering noir a cycle implies that films are understood against the backdrop of the outer culture and are embedded in the mentality of the period. Noir narratives explore "the male protagonist's need to investigate and punish the woman and his equally important need to adore her and be destroyed" (Naremore 264). web.mit.edu /womens-studies/www/writingPrize/hf03.html   (6086 words)

NeoNoir The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognisable elements of 'the noir vision', most importantly the moral ambivalence of the protagonist and his (or in neo-noir often her) ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality. The contemporary refashioning of noir themes is a manifestation of the flexibility and responsiveness to social change that have characterised noir from its inception and of the continued vitality of the form. The sense that 'noir' created in the 70s and 80s was a 'retro' and nostalgic avoidance of contemporary experience has been encouraged by the often-cited essay, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in which Frederic Jameson assigns to film noir a central role in the vocabulary of commercialized postmodernism. www.crimeculture.com /Contents/NeoNoir.html   (1081 words)

2blowhards.com: Kem Nunn 1: Neo-Noir The term "noir" is usually applied to describe low-budget B-pictures, both from major studios and independents, made from roughly the beginning of WWII to the 1950s. My impression (and that of the authors of the books on noir that I've read) is that noir does indeed have a pretty specific pedigree and definition - that it's the downbeat and moody subsubsubcategory that resulted when various emigre Euro directors applied their fatalistic Euro styles and tones to a handful of American genres. Noir, if it exists as such, is more like a mode -- but even there, we're getting into trouble, because that seems like too rigid a definition for the term as it's used. www.2blowhards.com /archives/000829.html   (2946 words)

GreenCine Film Noir Alfred Hitchcock was not a straight-up noir director, but it'd be a shame not to explore the overlap between the genre-slash-style and his work, particularly in the 40s and 50s. Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953) has been called the only true noir directed by a woman, but those who make that claim probably also mean to include the provision "during the classic noir period." Regardless, the heroine of American independent cinema proclaimed it her best film and few would argue. Noir's roots can be traced to American pulp literature and German cinema in the years immediately preceding the Great Depression and the Third Reich's rise to power. www.greencine.com /static/primers/noir.jsp   (2794 words)

Brian R Instead, entire scenes are shot in a washed-out, pastel glow, which allows for the simultaneous presence of noir atmosphere and sunshine. He also embodies the noir detective in that he is ironically the seeker-after-knowledge who consistently underestimates the overwhelming scope and power of the forces arrayed against him. There had been other attempts at reviving film noir throughout the 60’s and 70’s, but a large number of those films were simply inferior remakes of films from the classic era. members.aol.com /bhauser121/myhomepage/AngelHeart.html   (5697 words)

Film noir and the German-Hollywood Connection Purists claim that “true” film noir can't be in color, which would exclude almost all of the neo-noir films from the 1960s to the present. Despite many variations, most film noir heroes/villains are paranoid loners headed for some dark destiny, but who nevertheless manage to exchange a few snappy lines of dialog with the inevitable femme fatale along the way. In film noir, events often occur in the dark of night, and the characters also tend to have their dark side. www.germanhollywood.com /noir.html   (1078 words)

village voice > film > by Paul Arthur When neo hits its stride in the 1990s, it becomes less a matter of hymns or homages than a cagey commercial franchise ingesting its own press clippings, if not the weighty arguments of academic film theory. One implication of the series is that though noir died out in 1958 with Touch of Evil, as most historians believe, it was immediately followed by a string of modest spinoffs that run until Body Heat (1981) reignited wide audience interest. Film noir is the only major Hollywood cycle named retroactively by critics rather than by the industry. www.villagevoice.com /film/0007,arthur,12525,20.html   (626 words)

Category:Neo-noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Neo-noir sub-genre refers to crime dramas and mysteries produced from the mid-1960s to the present that, while they are generally shot in color and do not always emulate the visual style of classic film noir, often borrow the themes, archetypes, and plots made famous by the film noir genre. The Film noir genre generally refers to mystery/crime dramas produced from the mid-1940s to the late 1950s. Movies of this genre were shot in black and white, and featured stories involving femmes fatales, doomed heroes/anti-heroes, and tough yet cynical detectives. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Neo-noir   (145 words)

Table of Contents and Excerpt, Wager, Dames in the Driver's Seat Yet in addition to the attractions of the late-1990s neo-noir, the last half of the decade also produced a series of reactionary films noirs that feature a pastiche, or imitation, femme fatale. Although "Hollywood is a force for social stability," a crucial element in noir's abiding appeal remains the hint of ideological subversion exhibited by classic noir, and the aura of subversion that persists in postclassic texts. By arguing episodically for the presence of a noir sensibility—a pulp politics—throughout twentieth-century America, I improvise a method for theorizing its peculiar modernism, not as a seamless grand narrative, nor as a tightly focused case study, but as the chaotic repetition of the familiar. www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exwagdam.html   (3713 words)

The Crow This dramatic accentuation of noir characteristics is further evidence of The Crow as baroque neo noir. He represents the existential crisis of the noir hero - alone in an alienating and inhospitable world - and is the epitome of both the victim hero and the seeker hero. The image of this painful process recalls that of the noir hero in The Locket, when he stands in his apartment after finding out that he has been betrayed, and is shown suddenly amongst the rubble and destruction of a battleground, harking back to his situation as a war veteran. www.angelfire.com /80s/amyonline/crow.html   (2522 words)

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): The endurance of film noir - continuing influence of dark, brooding film style on modern motion pictures - Column The frequency of the reappearance of noir may be indicative not only of the nostalgia mode into which mass culture has entered, but a fascination with the paranoia and perversity that are hallmarks of the form which may indicate something of an unaddressed pathology in American life. Film noir generally is recognized to be a certain style that influenced primarily the crime movies of the 1940s and 1950s. The darkest aspect of the contemporary noir resurgence may be its suggestion that past emotions are sentimental trinkets to be memorialized on a pop culture video shelf. www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1272/n2638_v127/20954321/p1/article.jhtml   (1140 words)

Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Bad Lieutenant (1992) - Neo-Noir? While this woman is “bad” for doing drugs and having sex with a married officer (which she is aware of), she is not a femme fatale in the typical noir fashion. Noir heroes are sombre because they know what cards are going to be dealt. They are heavily influenced by noir pictures, but they warrant their own category because they differ so much. www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=382691   (4044 words)

In the past decade, American film has seen a resurgence of film noir Remaining as popular today to modern audiences as its ancestors, a key development within this resurgence has been the advent of a new neo-noir film. Whereas the original incarnations of film noir posited a fear of the bomb with the woman's name (Gilda) and face (Rita Hayworth) on it, the new fear is of the power of the woman herself. As Thomas Schatz explains in Hollywood Genres, "as a form," like film noir, "is varied and refined, it is bound to become more stylized, more conscious of its own rules of construction and expression." It is this fusion of the unstoppable detective with the irrepressible seductress into one ultra-anti-heroine that makes The Last Seduction refreshing. www.girlsaresmarter.com /laura/papers/TheLastSeduction_NeoNoir.html   (2354 words)

Bright Lights Film Journal Detours and Lost Highways In "Beyond Noir: The Roads to Ruin," the author is provocative in examining the connections between film noir and horror movies, corralling such examples as de Palma’s Dressed to Kill and Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Til Dawn. His idea that "noir-like lighting, mise-en-scene, characters, and themes appeared long before they coalesced into a 1940s style retroactively called film noir and has continued to circulate long after classic noir’s official expiration date" is surely proof that there are pervasive motifs, characters, etc. that underlie and inform noir and transcend it. Hirsch begins by refuting Paul Schrader’s dictum that noir ended in 1958 with Welles’s Touch of Evil, noting that noir itself has always been an elusive entity, claimed by competing camps as a style, a genre, or a movement. www.brightlightsfilm.com /26/br_detours.html   (313 words)

filmnoir.htm Thus, though film noir did introduce the American audience to the darker side of the human spirit, that initiation was one that was more of form than of content, and one that hardly ruffled the basic self-confidence of the era. In conversations with a number of relatives in their 80s who were frequent film-goers in the years of the classic noir cyle, ironically, I have never found anyone who saw, or was attracted to elements of a radically critical political perspective in the films. If determining precisely the original viewing audience and impact for most noir features is a matter of conjecture,overall film rental receipts reached an all-time peak in the U.S. in 1946 when there was an immense audience for movies estimated at as many as 90 million regular weekly movie-goers. www.montana.edu /wwwpo/rpratt/filmnoir.htm   (7707 words)

Ronald Schwartz's Film Noir, Now & Then Perhaps he's a little hard on Kasdan's brilliant neo noir homage Body Heat (1981) when he calls it "a rip-off" -- it's no mere scene-by-scene transposition of Wilder's Double Indemnity -- although you can forgive this thrust when you realize he actually likes Kasdan's film. In the little known noir classic The Prowler (1951) the doomed protagonist says to the woman he loves, "Whatever I did, I did for you." As the cop who becomes the prowler, this Van Heflin character is typical of the dangerous male who preys on beauty only to later find himself redundant. His approach is crafty, as he avoids the issue of whether or not the noir ambience belongs strictly to the bandw era. www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/NoirRS.htm   (1055 words)

Las Vegas Weekly Departments: Film You know you're watching noir when: there's low-key lighting and shadows; the setting is urban and nightmarish; there's a femme fatale; you hear voice-overs in an investigative or confessional tone and there's tons of crime and violence. Film noir was primarily a genre of films of the 1940s and '50s. A whole series of noir films is coming to Las Vegas, and each only costs $2 to view. www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/film/noir.html   (367 words)

China Moon (1994) At the same time, the film noir made such a strong resurgence in the 1980's that it spawned its own sub-genre: "Industrial Neo-Noirs" were films made on the cheap by independent companies that hoped to profit from lurid film noir storylines. Certainly, the classic noir period occurred circa the nineteen-forties, yet ever since Kathleen Turner drawled her predilection for feeble-witted men in 1981's Body Heat, the "neo-noir" has proved itself an enduring and popular modern genre. The term "noir" was first applied to the cinema when French critics wanted describe the "blackness" of the subject matter they saw in wartime American movies. www.filmmonthly.com /noir/Articles/ChinaMoon/ChinaMoon.html   (617 words)

Amazon.com: Film Noir Reader (Film Noir Reader): Books: Alain Silver,Alain Silver,James Ursini Topics include: noir science fiction, British film noir, abstract expressionism in film noir, female protagonists in neo-noir, and tabloid/crime photographer WeeGee's (Arthur Fellig) relationship to film noir, including discussion of the 1992 film "Public Eye" that was inspired by his career. For all the talk of film noir having been created in the minds of critics after the fact, it's apparent that these writers comprehended the existence of film noir style as it was being created. But the Film Noir Reader opens with a collection of essays from the 1970s that display everything bad about the 70s, academic, pretentious, pompous, over-anxious to establish a high-brow status for a low-brow art form (at least it was then). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879101970?v=glance   (2203 words)

modern.htm If early film noir is a mirror held up against the backdrop of a gritty city, neo-noir's mirror is held up to the same type of city, but its mirror is cracked (though not fragmented, it is important to note. As the hard-boiled genre of noir is already a reflection of an age of lost innocence, innocence in the postmodern mirror is not just lost but doubly so-removed wholly as all but an abstract concept. Another stylistic noir device borrowed and modified by Miller and Rodriguez was the use of the voice-over. www.albany.edu /~dm8600/modern/modern.htm   (2436 words)

K A B I N E T Many critics of the cinema have decided upon the expression "neo-noir" to define that sub-genre of film that is either significantly influenced by traditional film noir or which seeks to subvert or parody the elements of noir. What flickers across the screen, what "counts," is a powerful interplay of pictures illustrating ideas of creation and destruction, a noir nightmare of a world that never had the chance to spin out of control, for it always was out of control; it was branded that way from the beginning. The dialogue, often intrusive, pseudo-philosophical, and just plain embarrassing, may be fairly dismissed to the background. www.kabinet.org /magazine/issue11/offnoir.html   (804 words)

Neo-Noir K-Y Lynch as found noir an inspiration throughout his career, and has translated its elements into his own weird ideas and obsessions. This is one of his last independent films, an adaptation of the novel that was made into the noir classic Criss Cross (1949). Based on the novel by David Goodis, who wrote the original novel that the famous noir Dark Passage (1947) was based upon. www.reel2reel.net /neo-noir_k-y.htm   (3368 words)

Film Noir Reader The beginnings of neo-noir which are recapitulated in the reprint of Richard Jameson's 1974 "Son of Noir" and the newest reprint, Sharon Cobb's internet article for would-be screenwriters, suggests upcoming new directions. Another new piece by William Covey tracks the evolving relationship of film noir and women as neo-noir protagonists and filmmakers. Several all new essays consider noir's relationships to other types of films and other types of art: James Ursini considers science fiction and noir; Tony Williams, British film noir; Kent Minturn, abstract expressionism and noir; and Linda Brookover, crime photography and noir. members.aol.com /alainsil/noir/noir2.htm   (592 words)

Film Noir: Classic noir & neo-noir movies Film noir ("dark film") A term applied by French critics to a type of American film, usually in the detective and thriller genres, with low-key lighting and a somber mood. Film noir was most prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s, though it was revived occasionally later. Note: Classic films noir were produced prior to the advent of the MPAA rating system and are unrated. www.springfieldlibrary.org /reading/film_noir.html   (2966 words)

Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Genres: Film Noir Noir City - Author Eddie Muller introduces his books on film noir and the people who made the genre great. Narrative Innovations in Film Noir - A look at one of the most important, and often overlooked, aspects of film noir: the form of the narrative. Film Noir - Overview of the development of film noir and literary noir in postwar America. dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Genres/Film_Noir   (385 words)

News From France Neo-noir also served as star vehicles for such actors as Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. An archetypical neo-noir scence will gather a blend of the following features: smoke-filled rooms, wet streets at night, images of desperation and alienation, or even confusion between good and evil. French film noir grew out of American B-movies of the ‘40s, from which they borrowed their mood and visual language. www.info-france-usa.org /publi/nff/0209/che.htm   (386 words)

DEATH ON THE CHEAP The smart bombs hurled by these film noir fans, during their debates, are the classic dark thrillers from the 1940's and 50's. The opposing forces adamantly defend their stance that noir is not a genre, but a style of filmmaking that can be found in many genres including Crime, Westerns, and Melodramas. Although an unapologetic fan of B noir films, Lyons has no problem warning potential viewers from the really bad ones, and he doesn't exactly make his opinions known in a subtle fashion. www.noirfilm.com /Film%20Noir%20Books%20&%20Publications.htm   (2326 words)

This Gun for Hire True to the spirit of the dangerously seductive noir femme, Graham ultimately betrays all the men she comes in contact with­all of course in the service of the collective good of the country. This Gun For Hire has been described as 'one of the most important early films noir', and one that 'helps to establish a number of conventions of the genre'. The two stars went on to collaborate in other notable noir films­The Glass Key (USA, 1942) and The Blue Dahlia (USA, 1946). www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/00/8/gun.html   (1226 words)

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