1. Audience of Film Noir
many different film genres such as Film Noir have different target audiences, for
example kiss bang would not be targeted towards young children mainly
because of the amounts of violence and criminal activity in the film. Film noir has
always debated to who their target audience is, many people would say that film
noir is focused towards 40 – 80 year olds because this is the age group that
would have grew up with film noir movies, however other people may say that
film noirs interest the younger generation’s because they are interested in the
lifestyle in the 1940’s and how crime has developed since then. However it can
be argued that recent film noir films are not suitable for the younger audiences
because of their age rating of 18+, mainly because of the large amounts of
violence and sexual content.
The target gender audience for film noir is male, this is shown by the history of
film noir and how film noir’s have been made over the years, this has been
achieved by introducing an attractive femme fatal who generally falls in love
with the main protagonist in the film, however sometimes this may be the other
way round, for example in the big combo detective diamond is in love with Susan
and eventually gets her at the end of the film, however when he is in love with
her he is also having a small affair with a stripper called Rita , this also links to a
key convention of film noir which is that the main protagonist as a flaw.
To conclude I believe that the target gender audience for film noir in male ,
however the age of the target audience can still be debated because both older
and younger generations may enjoy the film , although this depends on how the

2. film is set out , so the target age audience for film noir can still be debated, and
that is the audience’s of film noir.
Susan from the big
combo : example of
femme fatal