9Noir Imagery
“Shoots me with my own gun, that’s what gets me.”
(The Big Combo)
The visual look of noir films, created by talented Hollywood film factory-taught cinematographers, was to the eye what jazz was to the ear and noir gowns were to female stars. It was exciting, risqué and often unpredictable, especially in the terms of what the standard Hollywood movies had always looked like. Rather than the more typical soft, high-gloss, glamorous look, these films featured gritty high-contrast images, filled with hard shafts of light through windows, downward puddles of light surrounded by darkness, stark silhouettes and faces in half-shadow. This new visual motif was the direct result of the stories the noir films ...
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