FILM NOIR
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Film noir, literally, "black film" was a term for crime melodramas, usually low to medium budget, and usually begun in the black-and-white eras before fancy color and special effects happened. Most of the subjects dealt with either crime- both punishment and retribution. In a sense, one could say that this film genre became popular at the end of World War II when universal disillusionment set in, and when the idea often was for someone to "get away with it"- as long as it wasn't a monstrous crime. "Film noir concentrates upon crime but the question of punishment is not so neatly solved despite the Hollywood tendency to knit up all the loose ends is discussed" (Scruggs 675). "Femme fatales. Wise-cracking detectives who were as tough as the criminals they fought. Shocking violence and twisted storylines. All key ingredients to the film noir. The world was a dangerous place in these stylized films of the late 1040s and '50s, a darker and more violent version of the 1930s detective story" (Netherby SS20). Given the overall description of film noir, Possessed was not tr
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