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Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style by Sheri Chinen Biesen (2024)

Film noir productions generally are associated with dark settings, either because action  takes place at night or in unlit rooms, where street light creeps through Venetian blinds and struggles all the way to hit the protagonists on the set. Originally, such an outcome on the set in part was caused by filming conditions during wartime, […]

Perplexing Plots. Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell (2023)

Generally, storytelling, narratives, modes of presentation and the story behind them, define most works of fiction and movie plots alike. As those techniques changed over the decades (as did audiences who step by step were introduced to this), new and exiting ways of shooting film and presenting characters entered popular forms of entertainment. The simple, […]