1. Based on your reading of the article "Neo-Noir 90s" provide a description of the content and visual elements of film noir during its classic period. Noir during the classical period is very interesting, and according to the article, "film noir," is "to describe" those "crime-infested, shadow-draped, black-and-white movies." And, according to the authors' of the article, "Neo-Noir 90s, it was during a time of peace and prosperity that film noir got it start". Meaning that after harsh times did film nior emerge about its classic period.
First, let me explain what is film noir a more briefly, according to the dictionary, film nior means, a "suggestive of crime or violence." As the article describes, it was after the victory and overcoming the "Depression and war years" that storytellers had a new way of writing. What emerge was a "corrupt new world" where good and evil were seen crossing path's for the first time.
Some of the elements seen in the classical period were something of the new. And according to the article, "The streets were rain-slicked, fogbound, menacing; the heroes deracinated and weary; the women ambiguous, sexy and treacherous." It was a new look for all viewers. "The nior vision" was inspired and created by such "novelists as Raymond Chandler, Dashiall Hammett and Cain". The visual image according to the authors, "was largely imported from Europe, by Germans and Austrians" that came to America, flee ding Nazi power, and bringing with them a taste of expressionism.
According to them, "classic film noir came to an end in the mid'50s," by which this time the film noir style had evolved in its most twisted variation. The end of the line came around 1955. One of the last classic film noir movie was "The Big Sleep" by Humphrey Bogart.
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