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Film Noir (Analytical Essay)
Ward and Silver define Film Noir as “a self-contained reflection of American cultural preoccupations in film form” (Silver and Ward, 1980). Following this, they then described the cohesiveness of Noir as “Different directors and cinematographers of great and small reputation, working at seven different studios, completed ostensibly unrelated motion pictures with one cohesive visual style.” (Silver and Ward, 1980)...
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