QUESTIONS FOR DOCUMENTARY

CLICK 'SLIDESHARE' ICON, CLICK 'SAVE' and download.

Questions for film noir documentary 'bringing darkness into light' from Emily Bell

If you have any problems just copy and paste!!!

QUESTIONS FOR FILM NOIR DOCUMENTARY - ‘Bringing Darkness to Light’

·  What is film noir described as by James Elroy (CLUE: he speaks about it at the end and at the beginning)?

·  In what time period did film noir occur?

·  Kim Newman described the routes of film noir as coming from what country? What was this movement called?

·  The writer/director of SIN CITY (Frank Miller) describes the difference between the crime genre and film noir. What does he say?

·  What distinguishes film noir as a ‘genre’?

·  Eddie Muller describes the politics at the time film noir was made. What does he say?

·  Eddie Muller describes how directors/writers pitch noir to audiences. What does he say?

·  What films did Eddie Muller and Christopher Nolan describe as starting noir?

·  Who says the following? ‘the black tide that washed over Hollywood in the post WW2 years’, ‘indicative of America’s loss of innocence’ and ‘screenwriters painted almost an anti-myth’.

·   How does Eddie Muller describe how film noir emerged from France?

·  What did screenwriters have to work within the limits of?

·      What will you find in terms of conventions in these films?