Guidelines
for Evaluating Avant Noir
Characteristics borrowed from film noir to define avant noir:
1. Unusual narration or plot development
2. Flashbacks
3. Crime/planning a crime (usually—but not
always—murder)
4. Femme fatale and/or homme fatale
5. The instrument of fate
6. Angst (for example, guilt, fear, self-doubt, confusion, and so on; in other words, anything that contributes to
angst)
7. Violence or the threat of violence
8. Urban and nighttime settings
9. Greed
10. Betrayal
11.
Philosophical themes involving alienation, loneliness
12.
Psychology (hypnosis, brainwashing, manipulation, amnesia)
13. Allusion
to postwar or wartime themes
14.
Chiaroscuro for black and white films, or intense or muted color or tinting
added to black and white films (In either case, the technique is used to
enhance the mood and/or the emotional content.)
15. Unusual
camera and/or lighting techniques
16. European
or U.S. film influenced by European styles (for example, German expressionism,
French poetic realism, and so on)
17. No stark
contrast between “good” and “evil” (characters, forces, emotion, and so on)
18.
Expertise triumphs, perhaps rather than “good”
Guidelines
for Evaluating Film Noir
1. Chiaroscuro
lighting
2. The use
of flashbacks
3. Unusual
narration or plot
4. Crime
and/or planning a crime (usually—but not always—murder)
5. Femme
fatale
6. The
instrument of fate
7. Angst
(for example, guilt, fear, self-doubt, confusion, anything that contributes to
angst)
8. Violence
or the threat of violence
9. Urban and
nighttime settings
10. Post–World
War I to Cold War time frame
11. Philosophical
themes (existentialism in particular) involving alienation and loneliness
12. Psychology
(manipulation, amnesia, and so on)
13. Greed
14. Betrayal
Guidelines
for Evaluating Neo-Noir
Characteristics borrowed from film noir to define neo-noir:
1.
Chiaroscuro for black and white films, intense or muted color in movies filmed
in color (In either black and white or color, the technique is used to enhance
the mood and/or the emotional content.)
2.
Flashbacks
3. Unusual narration
4.
Crime/planning a crime (usually—but not always—murder)
5. Femme
fatale and/or homme fatale
6. The
instrument of fate
7. Angst
(for example, guilt, fear, self-doubt, confusion,
and so on; in other words, anything
that contributes to angst)
8. Violence
or the threat of violence
9. Urban and
nighttime settings
10. Allusion
to post–World War II (or any postwar)
themes (optional)
11. Philosophical
themes (existentialism in particular) involving alienation, loneliness
12.
Psychology (hypnosis, brainwashing, manipulation, amnesia)
13. Greed
14. Betrayal
15. No stark
contrast between “good” and “evil” (characters, forces, emotion, and so on)
16. Expertise
triumphs, perhaps rather than “good”
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