Neo NoirJames Corbin and Destinee Wildman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6q50aY4ZI

Music piece from film, Psycho (1960).

What is Neo Noir? The term noir means, ‘new black’ is a style often seen in modern motion pictures. The genre uses elements of film noir, but with updated themes, contents, styles or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s.

Influences from 1960s and 1970s•The American Dream.

The American society was being shaken by riots in the black ghettos, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King,

Higher crime and unemployment rates,

There was a comparable movement away from the mood of the 60s.

The Durability of Noir

The contemporary refashioning of noir themes is a manifestation of the flexibility and responsiveness to social change.

The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognizable elements of 'the noir vision’. Most importantly the moral of the protagonist and his ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality.

BibliographyArnett, Robert (Fall 2006). "Eighties Noir: The Dissenting Voice in Reagan's America”.

Conrad, Mark T. (2007). The Philosophy of Neo-noir.

Hirsch, Foster (1999). Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir. New York: Proscenium Publishers.

Martin, Richard (1997). Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema

Snee, Brian J. (July 2009). "Soft-boiled Cinema: Joel and Ethan Coens' Neo-classical Neo-noirs". Literature/Film Quarterly 37.

1. Chinatown 2. Cutters way3. The Long GoodBye

Neo Nori the top 3 hit films

Chinatown Remake 2011 Best Film

• Chinatown is such a powerful piece of myth-making, near perfection ending unforgettably with the line Forget it Jake it's Chinatown.•Jack Nicholson is superb in Chinatown and he is helped in no small part by a pitch-perfect script, for which screenwriter Robert Towne won an Oscar.

Best Neo Noir Actors/actress •  Jack Nicholson - With 12 nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only Nicholson (1960s-2000s)

• Jeff Bridges -  He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart and earned Academy Award 

• John heard - Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (1999) 1977 Theatre World Award for his performance in G.R. Point

• Elliott Gould -which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – worst film

Judging from the original Sin City, and the numerous clips I’ve seen from A Dame to Kill For, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller don’t seem to have much of an understanding of what film noir actually is. It isn’t

that Rodriguez and Miller don’t know the elements of noir—they invoke numerous tropes the genre birthed. It’s that they don’t understand that these films are time capsules. Sin City is more

infatuated with the idea of a noir film than it is with actually applying the surface elements towards anything meaningful or relevant.

Neo Noir Characteristics•Chiaroscuro lighting •Bars, diagonals & frames within frames •Long tracking shots and deep focus •Urban settings filmed mostly at night •Crime & violence •Femme fatale •First-person voice-over narration •Cynical, world-weary male protagonists

The Recent Neo Noir Films

•Bridge of Spies •Black Mass•Spooks: The Greater Good•Gone Girl•John Wick