History of film noir 🎞
Film noir was founded during World War II when German émigrés
brought the experimental sensibility of German Expressionist to the cinema.
Directors used high key cinematography that dominantly featured bright direct
light and cascading shadow, camera angles, and many more. Another thing that
influenced the noir was the film traditions of German expressionism of the
twenties and French poetic realism of the thirties. The 1940s and 1950s were
the booming era of American film noir. The themes of the films were very dark
and involved a lot of crimes, detectives and gangsters. However, it was not
widely known in America until 1970s because film noirs was also referred to melodramas,
western and other genres. The arguably first dark film produced was Marcel Carine’s
Le Jour se Leve in 1939, a high contrast lighting film which full of sense of
dread and anxiety. Besides that, there are other films created by Julien
Duvivier and Jean Renoir which were famous directors at the time. An artistic
movement in the beginning of 20th century that involved in theatre,
photography, painting, sculpture and cinema as well. High contrast lighting,
the usage of shadow and alienated setting are the characteristics of German
Expressionism that adopted by film noir. Ever since the 1970s onwards, we have
had Neo-Noir films which had brought back the essence of Film Noir. And this
style is now still being ventured into other genres due to many films these
days being products of overlapping genres, therefore the style is still
developing as it moves through the ages thought the essence of the classic version
of the style remains.
Famous actors of film nior.Robert Mitchum films like The Night of the Hunter, Out of the Past, River of No Return and Yakuza.
Gloria Grahame films like The Big Heat, The Bad and the Beautiful, Oklahoma and Crossfire.
Charles McGraw films like Spartacus, The Birds, The Defiant Ones
Audrey Totter films like Lady in the Lake, Alias Nick Beal.
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