The document provides information about the film genre of film noir, including its typical visual features, origins in the early 20th century, and examples of influential films from the 1940s-1950s that exemplify the genre such as Mildred Pierce, Sunset Boulevard, and The Big Sleep. These films often featured dark lighting, murder mysteries, femme fatale characters, and private detectives. The genre reflected the pessimistic attitudes of the postwar era when it developed but saw little change until the 1970s with the emergence of neo-noir films.

1. FILM NOIR
Abigail & Vera

2. WHAT IS FILM NOIR?
 Film Noir is a film tone that typically has these features…
 It is often dark
 Has a murder mystery
 A femme fatal character
 A private eye
 Lots of silhouettes.

3. FACTS!
 It began as an artistic movement in 1910-1920.
 It took off in the 1930s onwards.
 Film Noir literally translates as “Black Film.”
 Film Noir developed during and after WW2 and highlighted the
pessimistic attitudes at the time.

4. HOW HAS IT CHANGED
OVERTIME..?
 Film Noir hadn’t been altered much till 1970.
 The only change was a sub-feature named Neo-Noir
 It reversed the role that typical Film Noir movies originally set out
to do. It reminded the audience that they were only watching and not
participating in the story happening on screen

5. EXAMPLES OF THIS GENRE...

6. MILDRED PIERCE

7. MILDRED PIERCE
 Director: Michael Curtiz
 Distributing company: Warner Brothers
 Released: 20th October 1945
 Basic Plot: A woman who dotes on her two children faces rough
times after her husband abandons her, she starts up her own business,
and her new husband is killed in her own home.

8. SUNSET BOULEVARD

9. SUNSET BOULEVARD
 Director: Billy Wilder
 Distributing company: Paramount
 Released: 17 August 1950
 Basic Plot: A fading silent movie star gets her return to the screen
when a script writer (who becomes her lover) writes her a way into
the life she didn’t wish to leave behind. A murder mystery surrounds
this.

10. TOUCH OF EVIL
Characters

11. TOUCH OF EVIL
 Director: Orson Welles
 Distributing company: Universal Pictures
 Released: 23 April 1958
 Basic Plot: A Mexican officer cuts his honeymoon short to deal
with the death of an American man who had a bomb placed in his
car. Whilst investigating his suspects, they have plans in store starting
with the Mexican officer’s wife.

12. NIGHTMARE ALLEY
Special
Effects

13. NIGHTMARE ALLEY
 Director: Edmund Goulding
 Distributing company: Twentieth Century Fox
 Released: 28 October 1947
 Basic Plot: A threesome, consisting of an ambitious carnie, an
alcoholic husband and a fake mind reading wife work the crowds at
the carnival.

14. THE BIG SLEEP
Private Eye and Silhouettes
Femme Fatale

15. THE BIG SLEEP
 Director: Howard Hawks
 Distributing company:
 Released: 31 August 1946
 Basic Plot: A private eye is hired by a dying man to investigate a
few family issues before he passes on. As he probes further, he finds
it leads to the disappearance of a favoured employee that left with a
known mobster’s wife.

16. WHAT DID I LEARN FROM
THESE MOVIES...?
 Film Noir, has very similarly linked features throughout all movies
in this style.
 Creating dark shadows and silhouettes is key in Film Noire.
 The femme fatale character has to be incredibly seducing to make
it 100% believable.

17. DRAMA
ROMANCE
By: Vera & Abigail

18. •Drama has always been an essential genre.
•Dramas, as the name suggests are very dramatic
and can leave the viewer in shock or leave them
excited about what they have viewed.
•Music is always used very well in Dramas to
enhance the mood that has been set.
•Romantic dramas started to be released in the
1950’s and were very popular and still are, with
female audiences.

19. Director: James Cameron
Distributing company: Twentieth Century Fox
Released: December 19,1997.
Basic Plot: The maiden ship, Titanic sets off for
New York and love blossoms between a young
socialite and a poor artist.
History: It is a 1997 American drama/romance
movie. The production of the film began in 1995.
The movie was partially funded by paramount
pictures and 20th century fox.

20. Director: Michael Curtiz
Distributing company: Warner Brothers
Released: 23rd January 1943
Basic Plot: Set in Africa during the 1940s, Humphrey
Bogart stars as a man with a past trying to hide the
past. He meets his former lover at his own bar and
things begin to get complicated.

21. Director: Daniel Barnz
Distributing company: CBS Films
Released: 22nd April 2011
Basic Plot: It is like the "Beauty and the Beast" but
in modern times, where a vain New York teen is
transformed into a hideous monster in order to get
over his looks to find true love.

22. Director: Henry Jaglom
Distributing company: Jagtonia Films
Released: 16th October 1998
Basic Plot: A shop owner and an Englishman meet
and falls in love at the very first time but the man is
married and the woman is to marry her business
partner.

23. Director: Bille Woodruff
Distributing company: Universal Pictures
Released: 12th March 2004
Basic Plot: It is about a young dance teacher in a local
community center who manages to become a backup
dancer in music videos. She ends up dating a barber
which leads to problems with her new found career.

24. Directors: Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan
Distributing company: Universal Pictures
Released: 9th March 2008
Basic Plot: A young teen who grew up in the
slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version
of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?“ As the
movie progresses, you see how his life story
helped him answer his questions correctly and win
“Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”

25. Titanic: The characters where very emotional which is a typical
convention of Drama.
Casablanca: The story of love in this film is a plot which is often seen in
Dramas.
Beastly: When the two characters meets and fall in love even though the
male has been cursed in order to find true love makes it very dramatic as
it shows that love has no ugly side.

26. CONVENTIONS
 Déjà vu: When things get complicated among the lovers and things
start to collide.
 Honey: Having exactly what you want in life before it goes wrong. This
typically happens in Dramas.
 Slumdog Millionaire: Shows how love prevails no matter what, which
is typical of Dramas.