"Film Noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood."-- Paul SchraederNoir is a style. It cuts across various art forms from movie genres to literary ty...
The hypothesis defended in this paper is that the silence in the film produces some considerable effects on the spectator, but effects that, however, escape a more focused approach to the revelation of a meaning, that is, an interpretive activity. Because of this specificity, the reading in ...