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Film Studies PPTFilms of the 1940s and the genre of film noir
• Films during this time were often dramatic, melodramatic, or considered a film noir. Other genres like the musical and comedies were around still too.
• WWII influenced what was made in Hollywood since it was a dark time in the US and films reflected it.
• Stars like Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Abbott and Costello, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and many others.
• And films like: Bambi, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Citizen Kane and many others.
Films of the 1940sGenres and stars
• Crime dramas or others with a dark/cynical mood
• 1940s to 1950s• Influenced by German
expressionist cinematography by using low-key black and white visual style (very dark hence noir)
• The term, by the way, was not accepted until the 1970s
• Usually melodramatic in acting but also can have melodramatic elements like music, recognition, and in other story elements.
• Often features stereotypical characters like the femme fatale (a mysterious and seductive woman), or the private eye (or investigator)
• Often, but not always, takes place in a city
Film NoirCharacteristics
The Big Sleep (1946) with Humphrey Bogarthttp://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=LF_chuSy9G4
The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogarthttp://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=Yiq5Fkr3yX8
Classic Film Noirs
Casablanca (1942) Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogarthttp://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=pa-dGYjSq5k
Double Indemnity (1944) Barbara Stanwyckhttp://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=ZKdcYnlkhx8
Film Noirs cont’d
The Third Man (1949) with Orson Welleshttp://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=UADNSWq5kOY
Sunset Boulevard (1950) with William Holdenhttp://cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=jMTT0LW0M_Y
Film noirs cont’d
Mildred Pierce (1945)• Directed by Michael Curtiz• Film Noir about a long-
suffering mother and her ungrateful daughter
• Joan Crawford (the main character who plays the mother) won an academy award for best actress.
• Tells the story in the third-person in chronological order with voice-over narration from the main character’s perspective.
• This is also a crime drama.