{"id":359,"date":"2019-05-23T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2019-05-23T04:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:23:18","slug":"film-noir-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/film-noir-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/film-noir\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/film-noir<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Characterized by:<ul><li>cynical heroes<\/li><li>stark lighting effects<\/li><li>frequent use of flashbacks<\/li><li>intricate plots<\/li><li>underlying existentialist philosophy<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Mostly prevalent in post world war II American crime dramas<\/li><li>\u201cCinema of the disenchanted\u201d<\/li><li>Films often represented the \u201cdisenchantment\u201d of the times<ul><li>Pessimism and Disillusionment introduced themselves to America during the Great Depression<\/li><li>Post World War II\u2013 McCarthyism and threats of atomic warfare gave a sense of distrust and uncertainty\u2013 was reflected through this style of film<\/li><li>Common storylines became ones centered around a war veteran that comes home and finds a different life in store for him\u2013 one different than the one he was fighting to come back to<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cAmerica of Film Noir\u201d<ul><li>Modernized<\/li><li>Heartless<\/li><li>Coldly efficient<\/li><li>Unconcerned with political corruption and organized crime<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Slight experimental aspects were developed from German cinematography during World War II<\/li><li>No thematic coherence<\/li><li>During the time it wasn\u2019t really considered a genre\u2013 people were just making crime films, thrillers, etc. However, they were influenced by the aura of \u201cpostwar cynicism\u201d which makes them their own category today<\/li><li>Use of stark lighting also differentiates noir from other genres<ul><li>Stylistic elements such as light and awkward camera tilts\/angles used to define the character\u2019s madness<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Use of expressionism<ul><li>Shown through flashbacks and narration<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/film-noir Characterized by: cynical heroes stark lighting effects frequent use of flashbacks intricate plots underlying existentialist philosophy Mostly prevalent in post world war II American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-359","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","one-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MahikaG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}