A 10-12-page essay. It must have a research component: At least two films should be looked at intensively, and at least seven films brought up. Protagonist: With one exception, the male lead. What’s he like? What are his behaviors, anxieties, ethics, in relation to what he wants, how he relates to other men, to women? How compromised/implicated is he in what he is investigating or experiencing, and why? In his trying to solve something, what’s in it for him? Cinematography: How is the movie filmed and why is it filmed that way? (Don’t address the first question without considering the second.) Framing, angles, point of view, lighting, shadows, deep focus, etc. Concentrate on the noir look.Women: Their roles, whether femmes fatales or otherwise. What they are like, how they behave? What is their relation to the protagonist, to the villains? To what extent are the femmes fatales independent of how men imagine/construct them, and to what extent are they male fantasies or projections? If the latter, what are those projections?Movie list: Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy WilderMurder, My Sweet, dir. Edward Dmytryk (1944)The Killers, dir. Robert Siodmak (1946) The Lady from Shanghai, dir. Orson Welles (1947)Out of the Past, dir. Jacques TourneurNightmare Alley, dir. Edmund Goulding (1947)The Third Man (British), dir. Carol Reed (1949)Kiss Me Deadly, dir. Robert Aldrich (1955)Elevator to the Gallows (French), dir. Louis MallePoint Blank, dir. John Boorman (1967) Chinatown, dir. Roman Polanski (1974) The Attack (Lebanese), dir. Ziad Doueiri (2012) Tell No One [French], dir. Guillaume Canet (2006).
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