The document discusses the genre of film noir, providing examples of classic and modern films that fall into this category. Some key characteristics of film noir include flawed protagonists, femme fatales, and stories centered around crime and mystery. Two films highlighted are Detour from 1945, about a hitchhiker who takes over a dead man's identity, and Shutter Island from 2010, where two marshals investigate the disappearance of an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

1. FILM NOIR BY DANIELLE JOHNSON

2. What is it ? The term film noir, French for "black film”,first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era Most of these films have stereotypical characters such as : The protagonist The Antagonist Female fatal Helper The antagonist can also be the protagonist because the story is central to them

3. Examples of Film Noir : Psycho -1960 In a lonely place -1950 The stranger on the third floor -1940 The big heat -1953 Detour – 1945 Morden examples of Film Noir : Shutter Island-2010 The Killer Inside Me-2010

4. DETOUR- 1945 Detour was Made on a small budget with limited resources in six days, Detour features all the great noir clichés: a down and out protagonist running from his past, a foul-tempered femme fatale, stylized dialogue, and a moody, bleak voiceover. It deals with a hitchhiker played by Tom Neal. He hitches a ride with a businessman one night who complains about his previous passenger, a crazy woman who scratched him. Much to the hitchhiker’s dismay, the businessman dies. He panics and throws his body into the desert and drives off.

5. SHUTTER ISLAND- 2010 Shutter Island is laced with nods to different films in the film noir and horror genre, and could generally be viewed as paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock's works. Following reports of a disappeared inmate, two U.S. marshals investigate an island in Massachusetts where a hospital for the criminally insane reports the disappearance of a patient