1. What is Film Noir? Please use quotes from the different texts you read for class.
2. Why do you think different scholars have different views when it comes to defining noir?
3. Discuss the importance, the influence and the impact of Film Noir.
4. What is Neo-Noir?
5. What are the similarities and the differences between Todd Erickson´s view on Neo […]

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French film critics concussed the term “Film Noir” in 1946. Due to the war and the German occupation not much cinema could be imported or screened in France during those years and the sudden release of all the movies left critics and audiences in awe and amazement. I dare say that it was the sudden […]

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The following movies are available at the library:
El angel azúl
House of Bamboo
Laura
Out of the Past
Touch of Evil (Sed del mal)
Please chose one of the films mentioned above and write a brief comparison between Laura and the film you chose to work with. List the elements that you find familiar as well as the motifs of […]

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