Film noir genres include mostly crime and gangster.
Crime genre - detective is the hero
Gangster genre - Criminal is the hero
Film noir films use chiaroscuro. Chiaroscuro is the technique of having a black screen with points of light. Film noir films use a lot of voice over’s and include bars and shadows which is an for entrapment. The narrative sense of voice-over is to understand the story and to be used as an Icon. Film Noir consist of Jazz music, guns, shadows, lipstick, darkness heavy rain etc...
German Expressionism
German expressionism brought the art of distortion. E.g. Angels and shadows being distorted to make them larger (more scary) this is part of a geometric pattern.
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