Open AccessPrimary Cinema Sources of American Noir
Author(s) -
Kasym N Orozbaev
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik82108-118
Subject(s) - movie theater , german , period (music) , style (visual arts) , art history , history , art , visual arts , aesthetics , archaeology
The article analyses the two main sources of American film noir: the German cinema of the Weimar period (1919-1933) and American gangster film (1920-1930), pointing out the principal stylistic, thematic and conceptual techniques that influenced the forming of the noir style in the American movies of the 1940-1950s.