Film Noir & Neo-Noir

Although the films are 36 years apart, they share similar film conventions. They are, however, different in their treatment of the generic conventions. Both are crime films that deal with a social, psychological and aesthetic response to the sense of anxiety, alienation and disillusionment of their age, and both express the dark side of the human psyche. Both films also contain a manhunt that forms the dramatic and psychological action. An element of Film Noir is that the visual style conveys the meaning of the film more than words; the sense of desperation and alienation is sh

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eward is offered for his death. The presence of hopelessness, isolation and brutality, so characteristic of the Film Noir style fills the screen. The wide camera angles show Fabian running through LondonÆs gray and gritty streets, trying to hide or find a way out. As the manhunt progresses throughout the night, the shadows grow darker and darker until it appears as if the shadows are also chasing Fabian. When Fabian is finally caught, strangled and thrown into the river, the villains are not punished. The same holds true of some other Noir films such as John HoustonÆs classic ôThe Maltese Falconö and Roman PolanskiÆs Neo-Noir ôChinatown.ö The grim, uncompromising end fits the tone and theme of ôNight and the City,ö a bleak, realistic picture of post war London life and urban life in the modern society of the post war era. In the post-modern world of the cinema of the 1980s, the menace, cynicism and alienation of earlier Noir films is carried into Neo-Noir films where the protagonist finds himself as much a victim as a hero. ô.. . cultural realities indicated a substantial revaluation of American ideologyö (Schatz 149). The detective-hero of the 1986 Neo-Noir ôManhuntö exists in this post-modern milieu, a milieu he has a diffic
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