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APPENDIX 12*: 'Film noir representations and conventions' As discovered from my questionnaire (quantitative) research, the audience favour a narrative of a 'mafia' imagery/plan to kill someone plot. This classifies under a 'film noir' genre and hence, as well as my film being an action/suspense-thriller, it will proceed to inhibit elements of film noir and thus, below is research into this genre of thriller films. Film noir was derived by French film critics who noticed the trend of how dark and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France after the second world war. Film noir is a style of American films that evolved in the 1940s and lasted in a classic period until about 1960. Film noir is a distinct branch or sub genre of the crime/gangster films from the 1930s but different in tone and characterisation. Additionally, the narrative...

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