Weinman, Sarah. "Meta-murderers".
latimes.com. Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2008. Web. 7 May 2008.
This article is about "The Book of Murder and The Killing Circle" consider a very lethal set: the writers' group". This article is about how important murder is to most of the "current crime fiction" novels, in many for the most part. Murder that turns "order into chaos", as we can admit to most neo-noir. That leads to investigation by a detective role, and all of this is common in most neo-noir "(original work published by Hard Case Crime)" films like "The Dark Knight". In many ways the article can illustrate this fact, as Sara Weinman reports, "like 21st century music, 21st century crime fiction is all about neo: neo-classical (Louise Penny), neo-noir (original work published by Hard Case Crime) and neo-romatic (the renewed popularity of historical mystery set during the first Romantic Age).
Boggs, Carl. "Postmodernism the Movie."
New Political Science 23.3 (2001): 351-370.
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This article is important because it breaks down in definition what Postmodernism is, and "in its various expressions over the past three decades...most visible in the United States" that is found in neo-noir. This article strongly emphasis the new trend and changes in culture, and "modes of tectnology, commoodification", and "consumerism". These elements can be found in neo-noir films like "Fight Club", and can rise my understanding of neo-noir, from film noir. This article, "Postmodernism the Movie" breaks down even more the important of "Postmodern cinema...It often questions established social hierarchies and discourses while at the same time depicting a society in the midst of turmoil, chaos, fragmentation, and violence - a social order that gives rise to and sustains a popular mood of anxiety, cynicism, and powerlessness". We find many of this information in "The Dark Knight" that provides many "dimensions of" class and "power structures" throughout the enter film.
Weinman, Jaime J. "Holy Identity Crisis, Batman
!." Maclean's 121.28 (2008): 53-54.
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"Holy Identity Crisis, Batman!" is all about the history of the movies, that started from the original Batman in 1989, to the latest; "The Dark Knight". From comic to movie. The article also gives a brief understanding of team of British writers including "director Christopher Nolan and actor Christian Bale". This article in many ways expl
ains the characters that seem " to fit in with Nolan's death-haunted comic-book noir world". And Christians Bales character in the Batman, which the article claims, "as a scowly vigilante whose vendetta against crime may cause as much trouble as it solves". The article also gives a brief description on every other Batman film made in the past before "The Dark Night" and how they have changed up to now.
Wong, Ewin J. "The dark kni
ght on film: The demi-god returns." Community Review 12. (1991): 57.
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The article "The Dark Knight On Film: The Demi-God Returns", is allot more in depth with explaining most elements and characteristics in association with noir, that updates the genre. Where according to author of the article Erwin J. Wong, "they have given his cinematic counterpart a costume that both in color scheme and physical nature contributes to the larger-than-life stature of a demigod." Where in "The Dark Knight Bruce Wayne...decides to pursue a crime-fighting career in Gotham City", and also important is the color in costume the film brings; "garbed in jet black". This article provides many associations to neo-noir, one important fact that the article empathise in print is the Batman's
"moral ambiguity" for both justice and revenge. As he brings "the maniacal criminals" to justice through "the dark and somber streets of Gotham".
Boucher, Geoff. "Christopher Nolan's 'knight' vision".
latimes.com. Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2008. Web.
5May 2011.
In many ways this last article is important in giving me a true understanding of "The Dark Knight" and most of all Christopher Nolan's who from what I understand so far has a thing with applying many elements and associations with noir in his movies. For example, Geoff Boucher can
further explain, "The Dark Knight delves further into Nolan's familiar themes of moral uncertainty, madness and the cost of vendettas, which gave shape to 'Momento,' 'Insomia,' 'The Prestige' and his first trip to Gotham, the 2005 'Batman Begins." Where interesting enough 'Momento' falls as a film of neo-noir, as in comparison to "The Dark Knight". And in the new Batman, Bruce "is in a far darker place, then where he was then fighting the mob. In his own words, Boucher says no more than: "The Dark Knight finds a new political force in Gothem in Harvey Dent, a crusading prosecutor, and a deranged new criminal in the mysterious Joker." For all of us, including Nolan the movie is a crime film with elements and updates to the genre.
