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Tag: film noir

Where Italian Neorealism Meets the American Film Noir: Ossessione (1943)

Posted on August 3, 2021November 9, 2021 by Cansu Peker

Luchino Visconti’s 1943 film Ossessione is considered one of the earliest examples of Italian neorealist films even though it doesn’t reflect all its conventions. On the other hand, one can notice elements of the American film noir tradition. Both are styles emerging after the Second World War as an expression of the collective consciousness and traumas. This paper examines Ossessione as a great film to study the edges of film noir in an international context implemented near the beginnings of a groundbreaking movement in Italian cinema.

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Scarlet Street (1946)

Posted on October 18, 2020October 17, 2020 by Cansu Peker

Story of how the average man is consumed by the system, women, and the American Dream

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