The content of a film noir, the basic plot line, tends to be an anti-hero down on his luck in an American city after the war who gets drawn into some kind of elaborate mystery or conspiracy by a seductive woman, usually the femme fatale, and is caught up in this conspiracy and must try to figure out how to get out of it and who's trapped him. There's usually a murder involved, almost always a murder involved, and there's a sense that no matter what he does, by the end he'll be doomed and taken up by this monster.
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The term "Film Noir" was first introduced to the world by the french film critic and writer Frank Nino in 1946. It literally means "Black Film", and films belonging to this "subgenre "are common for being not only visually dark, but also in the construction of their characters and themes. Nino got to notice this in films following the war period, which clearly showed how the directors felt at that time in history. This style became prominent after WWII with movies such as "Double indemnity" (Billy Wilder) and "Laura" (Otto Preminger), both released in 1944.
The end of the "Film Noir Era" was marked by Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" (1958).
It is important to keep in mind that Film Noir IS NOT A GENRE, but a style that refers to a historical period of film history, speciffically film-making after Worl War II, which is similar to German Expressionism and French New Wave period that we have seen in class. However this label was only used after the Film Noir period -early noir film-makers didn't use that designation for their films and they weren't concious about this. Definitions provided by:
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