Above are a few front covers of popular film noirs and I will look at some of these front covers and others and analyse them thoroughly.
Film Noir is French for Black Film/Cinema. The film genre originated from American crime and thriller films, that were picked out by French film critics such as Nino Frank. They got called this due to the dark, downbeat and black themes of the films. This name came soon after the end of WWII. In the early 1940s France was occupied by Nazis, making it enemy territory forbidden to recieve Hollywood products. The French nation realised with a surprise after the war how a gloomy, pessimistic worldview had replaced much of the sunny optimism of The USA. America's movies were getting darker as the 1940s went on, but not just visually, but also the way the movies are made and the ideas and content of the movies. The whole world became a darker place due to the spreading word of war, the entire world seemed to be suffering in sadness. America at the time felt as if they could not ignore the conflict around the world and this was strongly shown in American movies in the 1940s, through doomed heroes whose fate seemed pre-ordained, and immune to free will.
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