Film Noir
フィルム・ノワール / 1940s–1950s / later revivals / Style / Cinematic Visual Styles
Cuts distrust, isolation and fatalism into the frame with low-key lighting, deep shadow, oblique composition, the city at night, reflections.
Low-key lighting / Hard chiaroscuro / Rain and night streets / Slanting shadows
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs space and gaze
- Material
- Verify materials specific to region, period and process
- Caution
- Not just monochrome, smoke and venetian blinds. Run urban anxiety and psychology through composition, light and narration.
- Further study
- German Expressionism / Robert Siodmak / The Big Sleep