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Film Noir Production
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Film Noir Production

by David Landau
November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
182 pages
4h 26m
English
Routledge
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12Cross-Genre Noir and Noir Influence

“No, bulls would gum it. They’d flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they’d trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we’re doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit.”

(Brick)

Film noir has had a profound influence on American movie-making. Its style and story themes have transcended time and even genre. There have been many films that have merged noir with other film genres, with both great and questionable success.

The 1982 movie Blade Runner is a futuristic noir film, which features a loner sort of PI who hunts down replicants (human androids) and extinguishes them. Based ...

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