bitwa-filmowa: Film noir

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A film noir (; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a Hollywood crime drama film that emphasizes cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and attitudes expressed in classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression, known as noir fiction. Film noir encompasses a range of plots, commonly featuring mysteries/crime dramas, detective fiction, and stories with themes of corruption, org…

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Neo-noir is a film genre from the 1970s, in the era of New Hollywood, which is primarily associated with the subversion and visual style of classic film noir tropes, adapting the themes of 1940s and 1950s American film noir for contemporary audiences, often with vibrant colors and high-contrast, more graphic depictions of violence or sexuality, thematic motifs, and nonlinear narrative or editing. During the 1970s and the mid 1980s, the term "neo-noir" surged in popularity, fueled by movies such as Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981), Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Paul Verhoeven's The Fourth Man and David Ly…

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Film noir is not a clearly defined genre (see here for details on the characteristics). Therefore, the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable, published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field, e.g.[a][b][c][d] The terms which are used below to subsume various periods and variations of film noir are not definitive and are meant as a navigational aid rather than as critical argument. Because the 1940s and 1950s are universally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir, films released prior to 1940 are listed…

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The following is a list of films belonging to the neo-noir genre. Following a common convention of associating the 1940s and 1950s with film noir, the list takes 1960 to date the beginning of the genre.

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1. Film Noir Visual Style from Wartime to the Postwar 1940s Nitrate Era

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Horror noir (also called noir horror or hyphenated as horror-noir; lit. 'black horror') is a subgenre that blends the conventions of horror with those of film noir. It is characterized by dark visual or narrative styles, morally ambiguous characters, and plots involving crime or investigation, alongside elements intended to evoke fear, such as the supernatural, the grotesque, or psychological terror. The subgenre commonly explores themes of fatalism, corruption, and existential anxiety; the term is most often applied to films from the mid-20th century onward. Stories in this subgenre often focus on morally conflicted protagonists placed in urban environments, where they face both external t…

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2. Warning Shadows: German Expressionism and American Film Noir

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Warning Shadows: German Expressionism and American Film Noir