Film Noir- American Style Cinema -NOTICE NEW RULES!

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About Film Noir- American Style Cinema -NOTICE NEW RULES!

*Only submit photos that have a noir era American film quality and style to it. (Think Intense and dark)
*No sepia or d-tones. We have yet to see a film shot in sepia!
*Lay off the textures and filters! This is Film noir....not comic book noir.
-IF A PHOTO OF YOUR IS DELETED IT IS DUE TO ONE OR MORE OF THESE THREE RULES.
-MEMBERS WHO FREQUENTLY VIOLATE THESE RULES WILL BE BANNED. DONT TAKE IT PERSONALY. YOU PROBABLY DONT GET THE THEME. NOT EVERYONE DOES.


"Film Noir" isnt french for "Fabulous bw art by cool and hip photographers destined for fame and glory" ! ! ! !
If this in anyway shatters your belief system then kindly leave. Ill even let you believe its not you its us who are out of touch.
The rest of you mugs fall in and read on before joining and then submitting to the pool.

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.

The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era.

Cinema historians and critics defined the noir canon in retrospect:
Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic film noirs were referred to as melodramas.

The question of whether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre is a matter of on-going debate among scholars.

Film noirs encompass a range of plots—the central figure may be a private eye (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.)

Though the noir mode was originally identified among American productions, films now customarily described as noir have been made around the world. From the 1960s onward, many pictures have come out that share attributes with film noirs of the classic period, often treating noir conventions in a self-reflexive manner. Such latter-day works in a noir mode are often referred to as neo-noirs

If your noir work is more neo than vintage era film noir, then this may not be the group for you..

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