Noir, The Blog

Emma Rees HONR101 Prof. Sinowitz December 15 th , 2017 The Elevator Shot             For a moment, assuming you watched the film before reading this, think back to our old seminar classroom in Peeler. The fluorescent white lights with a small, oval table that was filled with books, notes, and bagels. Sitting around in our usual seating arrangements with a couple of variations from time to time. Talking over one another with laughter and long tangents. Those were the days. The days of naïveté for young Emma Rees who did not fully understand that making a film is actually, quite difficult. Even though the prompt did mention the difficulty of coming up with an original plot for a neo-noir film with the limited amount of time, Emma thought nothing of it, I thought nothing of it. My roommate enjoys films and the making of them, I enjoy acting, WE CAN DO THIS. And we sure did! Sure, there were several instances when we thought ...

Shafrarisi Bonner HONOR 101C FYS: NOIR FILM & NOVEL Michael Sinowitz December 7, 2017                                             The Case of Collateral : A Neo Noir           Michael Mann’s 2004 film Collateral , plays an important role in neo noir film. It tells the story of a taxi driver in Los Angeles, a hot spot for film noir, who is driving around a notorious hitman. Together they drive around the dangerous and narcotic filled areas of L.A on an unspoken business plan. By far this film shows an excellent example of film noir and the changes it went through over time. While watching Collateral, students will be thrown into a hot seat of real postmodern neo noir. Despite being filmed in the 2005, many years after noir was in its p...

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Mallory Pendergast Noir Film & Novel Professor Sinowitz 15 December 2017 Noir? I barely know her! Why Neo-Noir is a Genre in its Own Way Throughout the semester we have read and watched many noir novels and films, but at some point, there was a shift in the elements constituting noir, to what some refer to as neo-noir. This shift occurred around the 1960s, ending with Orsen Wells’ film  Touch of Evil . After watching this film and then watching  Chinatown , which is roughly the transition from classic noir to new-noir in our class, I definitely noticed the elements of classic noir shifting to a more modern style, and it was not just because the films were beginning to be produced in color. Some of the elements that have been transformed in neo-noir are violence, femme fatales, the chronological order and complexity of plots, false accusations, unreliability of narrators, sexuality, and the personal codes of protagonists (“The Elements of Neo-Noir,” 2014). The es...