Noire genre: The Noire genre is defined by a dark and brooding style and feel with cold and sinister characters. The film genre reflects the time in which they became popular which was one of pessimism and disillusionment, especially within the American population as the red scare, McCarthyism and the threat of atomic warfare loomed.
The dark feel common to the genre was also achieved by the lighting used in it. It was often shot in black and white with stark contrasts between the few colours used. This lighting is often a sure way to determine whether the genre of a film is Noire. The same lighting was also used to determine the nature of the characters. Tilted cameras and skewed images were used in conjunction with the lighting giving the character a unique appearance which could give the character a clear 'normal' face or have one cut by shadows to give the character a sense of madness.
Modern Genre:
Whodunit
The whodunit detective genre focuses on making a reader or viewer of the media piece guess who the criminal really is. Whodunit gives clues throughout and revels the real culprit in the last few pages of the book. Whodunit's generally have a large group of characters whose personalities heavily built up throughout so the audience has to consider each one of them to decide who the real culprit is. A common plot enjoyed by audiences is misleading them by revealing
Victorian
Crime Fiction
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