Film Noir:

PROMPT:  Discuss an aspect of film noir from the reading that you found particularly striking or thought-provoking in the film.

For this week, you will watch Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949) (AKA Give Us This Day).  It is available in the library on a Criterion DVD, with very high quality.  I recommend watching it this way in order to get the full visual effect.

Note: I am replacing your reading from Red Hollywood with a reading that I think gives you a better introduction to film noir.

1) Some Visual Motifs of Film Noir-Place and Peterson

2) Charles Mayland Film GrisFilm Criticism 26 no 3 2002

3) City that Never Sleeps, “Night City” (Page 243-257)