[UWAB] For the Femme Fatales

[CT Cool]

I figured some of you are still confused about film noir so here is some basic info/pics. In case you ever run into them, some good movies are double indemnity, gaslight,laura.
What is film noir, anyway? 

 There are seven elements of film noir Raymond Borde and Etienne
Chauteton highlight in Panorama du Film Americain (excerpted and
translated in the Film Noir
Reader edited by Alain Silver and James
Ursini).  They are:


 a crime
 
 the perspective of the criminals, not the
police


an inverted view of traditional sources of authority, such as
corrupt
police 


 unstable alliances and allegiances 


 the femme fatale--the woman who causes the downfall and/or
death of a good man 

 brutal violence 


 bizarre plot twists and motivations

http://theongoingproject.blogspot.com/2009/02/film-noir.html
http://beatnikbazaar.blogspot.com/2009/12/film-noir-party.html
http://www.bradkugler.com/Parties/Film-Noir-Party-Pangea/7483060_f3UwY#482871356_Z9i8m
http://www.filmsite.org/femmesfatales.html


 		 	   		  
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