Thesis and how I plan to format it Thesis For the final project, I aim to “answer” the question we were asked the first day of class: what is film noir? Is it a genre? Is it a style? By going back and looking at what we’ve learned this semester, as well as additional research,Continue reading “Project Outline”
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Through the video essay format, I plan to analyze noir horror films like Dementia, Shock, and Inner Sanctum, and explain how films like these have influenced more contemporary horror films when it comes to style and imagery. Throughout the video essay I will be deconstructing the three films mentioned above and drawing similarities from them […]
What i would like to do is something of a mashup video similar to what we saw at the beginning of the semester. Mainly a mash up focused on the changes from the classic film noir to the new styles of noir such as rural noir, Neo noir, etc. What i want this mash up […]
What i would like to do is something of a mashup video similar to what we saw at the beginning of the semester. Mainly a mash up focused on the changes from the classic film noir to the new styles of noir such as rural noir, Neo noir, etc. What i want this mash up […]
Script draft: The action will be updated as soon as the dialogue has had a fair chance to be judged Bibliography Note: All sources will be acquired using screen recording material either with zoom, screen caption or quick play and then would be edited in. Films (These scenes will be used as examples and material … Continue reading VE Bibliography and Script
The Wolf Among us. Telltale games, 2013. This is a game that I’m familiar with and I felt like it had a lot of noir tropes Miller, Frank. Sin City. Dark Horse Comics. 1991-92. I felt like this was a good example of a noir comic book Fergus, Mark and Hawk Ostby, creators. The Expanse. Syfy andContinue reading “Video Essay Script and Ann. Bib. Retry”
You have seen the setup numerous times. Four men in dapper Burberry suits topped off with pantyhose around their faces enter a bank brandishing their shotguns and large machine guns. One screams for everyone to get down on the ground and another runs over to stop the teller from pressing the silent alarm. They are … Continue reading The Evolution of The Heist Film
You have seen the setup numerous times. Four men in dapper Burberry suits topped off with pantyhose around their faces enter a bank brandishing their shotguns and large machine guns. One screams for everyone to get down on the ground and another runs over to stop the teller from pressing the silent alarm. They are … Continue reading The Evolution of The Heist
For many years, we’ve had films, the ones that are within the noir or neo-noir genre, that were produced by white directors and starred white actors. But have you heard about neo-noir films that were produced by African Americans and consisted primarily of African American actors? Well, we actually do have those films that were […]
Here is my video essay script over the depiction of the femme fatale in film and advertisements. Film noir has been around since the early 1900s, but the 1950s marked a period of new films with a strange a violent tone initially called “dark films”. These films featured crime, corruption, suspense, and women (Borde &Continue reading “Phase II: Script Draft and Annotated Bibliography”