"Film noir" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 17 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Film Comparison

    • 1151 Words
    • 3 Pages

    recently become what movie fanatics are talking about and what viewers want to go see in the theaters. The reasoning behind this is because this genre has everything in it: horror‚ action‚ comedy and sometimes even romance. Viewers love that these films are all based out of the writer’s head: no plot‚ no rules‚ just their thoughts. When viewers go in the theater thinking this would never happen and they leave seeing how easy it would be for it to. I Am Legend (2007) and World War Z (2013) both use

    Premium Film Zombie The Zombies

    • 1151 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    "Double Indemnity" is one of the best films of all time‚ not necessarily because of its story but because of the acting‚ direction‚ cinematography‚ lighting‚ and the narrative style. At the time this film was released‚ the idea of revealing who the killer was in the opening scene was virtually unheard of‚ but it ended up being very effective because it allowed the audience to concentrate more on other elements of the film‚ which was the goal of Billy Wilder‚ the director. Instead of trying to figure

    Premium Film Film director Film noir

    • 2010 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Film Genres

    • 3059 Words
    • 13 Pages

    Film Genres BY AEISHNA.R 2nd Year B.Sc. Visual Communication Ethiraj College For Women Chennai-08 Film Genres Film genres are identifiable types‚ categories‚ classifications or groups of films that have similar techniques or conventions such as:  content  recurring icons  subject matter  stock characters  structures  narrative events  themes  situations  mood  motifs  period  styles  plot  props  settings  stars Film Genres Primary film genres include the following:

    Premium

    • 3059 Words
    • 13 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    America Televising the Holocaust During the 1950’s The events that took place during the Holocaust began to make its way to film during post-World War II America. In the 1950’s‚ the film The Diary of Anne Frank‚ and the Judgment at Nuremberg and the TV show This is Your Life gave the American audience an understanding of the disturbing events. The objective‚ of most TV and film writers that chose to portray the Holocaust‚ was to get the American audience to connect with the Jewish people. Through watching

    Premium The Holocaust Nazi Germany World War II

    • 926 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The television show Doctor Who‚ (2005-present)‚ can be seen as modern day noir to some extent. Doctor Who can be seen as modern day noir because it has multiple elements that are used to characterize the genre of noir. Some characteristics of noir that are portrayed in Doctor Who are a morally ambiguous protagonist‚ a fatalistic viewpoint of the protagonist‚ the femmes fatales. The Doctor is a morally ambiguous character that struggles with making the correct choices at times even though he is basically

    Premium Doctor Who Doctor English-language films

    • 1492 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Seven Deadly Sins Brianna Kibler Introduction To Film Studies- HUM/150 Dominic Biondi The 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is about an insurance salesman‚ Walter Neff‚ who gets entangled in a plot to kill an unhappy wife’s husband‚ Phyllis Dietrichson‚ over greed. They work together to stage a suicide that should later be determined accidental. Little does the salesman know the wife will get what she wants‚ no matter the cost. This paper will dissect the movie to help illuminate underlying

    Premium Film Double Indemnity Film noir

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    “Why has audience positioning towards Gangster films and their main characters Changed throughout the evolution of film?” “The crime film is the most enduringly popular of all Hollywood genres‚ the only kind of film that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the sound era seventy years ago.”-Thomas Leitch The central theme of the gangster film has always revolved around law and order and essentially boils down to the Criminal institutions fighting one another or fighting a corrupt

    Premium The Godfather Audience theory Film noir

    • 2371 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    LEVEL 3 How to write a Film Review Credits (first page only): Title‚ year‚ genre‚ director‚ (screenwriter)‚ music or soundtrack‚ main actors. Credits: Summary of the plot (synopsis): Only a brief summary of the film‚ around ½ to ¾ page. Make sure that your summary makes sense to a reader who does not know the movie. Do not refer to specific scenes and do not try to explain everything. You must also include the following items‚ but not as different parts (they should be included

    Premium Film director Film Writing

    • 305 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Realism in Film

    • 1954 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Since the beginning of film there have been many styles and genres that have been portrayed on the silver screen. Each style has it’s own distinct qualities‚ laced with the talented individual who created it. These styles have been evolving and changing according to the technologies and resources available at the time. One of the most prominent styles has always been realism. Realism in films has been around since the beginning of films and is still present and making a huge impact today. Realistic

    Premium World War II Film Feature film

    • 1954 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Film Analysis

    • 1817 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Textual Analysis in Film Camera Analysis ← Composition ← Framing ← Camera Height ← Angle of view ← Depth of field ← Choice of lens Mise en Scene Film Analysis questions ← Dominant: Where is our eye attracted first? Why? ← ← Lighting Key: High Key? Low Key? High Contrast? Some combination of these? ← ← Shot and Camera Proxemics: What Type of shot? How Far away is the camera from the action? ← ← Angle:Are we ( and the camera)

    Free Film Narrative Film editing

    • 1817 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 50