The 1940-50's Film Noir

Social and technological factors have caused Film Noir to develop and change in a plethora of ways to keep up with a constantly changing audience’s takes and expectations. During the 1940-50’s Film le Noir emerged and created an artistic movement within the movie community and created a contemporary style of movies that were often described at cynical crime melodramas. These films used lighting effects, flashbacks, cynical heroes and were mostly present in post-World War II, in which the popularity of the genre stemmed from the relatability of the time, and the movies showing the skewed truth beneath the films features.
In the beginning Film Noir’s popularity grew exponentially in the years of 1940’s -60’s. Some of the early movies from this time period are, John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941), Frank Tuttle’s This Gun for Hire (1942), Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944), and Edward Dmitry’s Murder, My Sweet (1944). The Nickname ‘Film Noir’, translates to black film, was given this nickname by Nino Frank in a 1946 news article (Dirks, T, Film Noir-films), this nickname ultimately stuck, and provided this genre with a name. Film Noir as a genre is sometimes seen as a definite mood or style used in a film instead of a genre. This style of films was very influential in its prime …show more content…
Eventually due to the influx of popularity of these films began to decline in popularity. This would spark a major change due to, Audiences beginning to get bored with the same storylines, characters and overall content of the films. With advances in cinematography and film-making technology, film noir gave way to neo-noir in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Both Genres quite similar, introduced a whole new opportunity, ‘film makers began to adapt to the new technology’(geekcentricity.com, 2017). The c