HIST 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motion Picture Production Code, Lowkey, Film Noir
24 Oct 2016
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Horror and film noir share many cinematic techniques. Address similar themes regarding the dark side of human existence. Film noir is a product of modernity, urbanization, capitalism, nationalism. Vampire = middle-class dependence upon the labour of mass of workers) Put story in a familiar, less exotic context to heighten the terror. Hitchcock"s psycho (1960) placed horror within american context. Story in a familiar context as social comment. Collapse of integrationist period of civil rights movements; resurgent white supremacy in context of cold war. The exorcist (1973, 77, 90, 2004) and countless others themed accordingly. Fear of the female (think the shinning with little twin girls) while the monster is usually coded as male monster is usually coded as male. Carrie sees a tormented young woman become a monster. Representative of a group of motion pictures in a specific historical period from the late 1930s to late 1950s. Jarring juxtapositions between shots involving extreme changes in camera angle or screen size.
