Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from hardboiled detective fiction, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.

The anime draws heavily on Western sources, such as pulp detective stories, film noir, and American Westerns.

The flavour of film noir permeates Cowboy Bebop.

The big city rain slicked settings of film noir are continually explored, especially in the episode ‘ Ganymede Elegy ’.

Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

In his 1968 film La Mariée était en noir François Truffaut plays on this mythological symbol.

He became a regular at the Pacific Film Archive, as Tom Luddy, the director of the archive at the time, later remembered: " He was a film noir nut.

He claimed we weren't showing the real film noir.

Sometimes there is a focus on a specific film-maker or genre ( e. g., film noir ) or subject matter ( e. g., horror film festivals ).

Bogart would star in 36 films between 1934 and 1942 including John Huston's The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), one of the first films now considered a classic film noir.

French cinema also was the birthplace for many sub-genres of the crime film, most notably the modern caper film, starting with 1955's Rififi by American-born director Jules Dassin and followed by a large number of serious, noirish heist dramas as well as playful caper comedies throughout the sixties, and the " polar ," a typical French blend of film noir and detective fiction.

Hollywood's classical film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

Whether film noir qualifies as a distinct genre is a matter of ongoing debate among scholars.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.

A comedy of manners film satirises the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

Elwes ' voice-over work includes the narrator in James Patterson's audio book The Jester, as well as characters in film and television animations such as Quest for Camelot, Pinky and The Brain, Batman Beyond, and the English versions of the Studio Ghibli films Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns.

The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters ( American, French, German, Czech, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Russian and some other nationalities ).

In the Disney animated film Fantasia, during the Pastoral Symphony, some of the main characters are female centaurs.

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.

Matching the characters in the film Withnail and I has become an accepted drinking game, although the levels of consumption required for a single player are hazardous.

Morris oversaw the creation of the gestural and body language for the Paleolithic human characters in the 1981 film Quest for Fire.

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

In addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

In the 2005 feature film romantic comedy, Hitch, starring Will Smith, his and Eva Mendes ' characters take a jet ski to the island and explore the building.

The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.

* Eve Harrington, one of the main characters in the film All About Eve

Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.

It was during this period that camera effects intended to convey the subjective feelings of characters in a film really began to be established.

Initial attempts in the United States in the early 1970s were generally based on sociological theory and focused on the function of women characters in particular film narratives or genres and of stereotypes as a reflection of a society's view of women.

The signal film in this vein was Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder ; setting the mold was Barbara Stanwyck's unforgettable femme fatale, Phyllis Dietrichson — an apparent nod to Marlene Dietrich, who had built her extraordinary career playing such characters for Sternberg.

Crew are distinguished from cast, the actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for characters in the film.

As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

you are employing the basic technique of film ; ;

All the sins of ancient Rome are said to be collected into this three-hour film.

Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective use of film as a library service.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

In the film, there are no male actors and the four leading actresses dubbed themselves in the Castilian version.

Currently Algerian cinema is in a phase of restructuring ; the French-wing is taking the lead over the Algerian one, and many film production are written in French rather than Algerian arabic.

Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, and other media such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of art or the arts.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

Not all people working as actors in film, television or theatre are professionally trained.

Although filmed in color, instead of black and white as the earlier 1930 film adaptation was, the wasted and desolated landscapes and environment are very effectively conveyed.

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

Remaining uses of bromine compounds are in well-drilling fluids, as an intermediate in manufacture of organic chemicals, and in film photography.

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

De Palma describes the sequence as a constant invocation of Brechtian distanciation: “ First of all, I am interested in the medium of film itself, and I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film.