Retrospective essay: 8 pages. It is the chance to look back over the genre, your choice of films and emphases.
What is film noir as a genre? What features/qualities of a film warrant its inclusion in the genre?
The films that were used in the semester were:
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941; U.S.)
Cat People (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1942; U.S.)
Casablanca (dir., Michael Curtiz, 1943; U.S.)
Leave Her to Heaven (dir. John M. Stahl, 1945; U.S.)
The Big Sleep (dir. Howard Hawks, 1946; U.S.)
The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946; U.S.)
Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946; U.S.)
Panique/Panic (dir. Julien Duvivier, 1946; France)
The Stranger (dir. Orson Welles, 1946; U.S.)
Body and Soul (dir. Robert Rossen, 1947; U.S.)
The T-Men (dir. Anthony Mann, 1947; U.S.)
Force of Evil (dir. Abraham Polonsky, 1948; U.S.)
