The term film noir was coined by two French film critics Borde and Chaumenton in 1956 to describe American detective stories mode in the 1940s.Noir films were seen as a counter-cultural movement within Hollywood at th...The term film noir was coined by two French film critics Borde and Chaumenton in 1956 to describe American detective stories mode in the 1940s.Noir films were seen as a counter-cultural movement within Hollywood at that time,and the French new wave continued this feature in the 1960s.Therefore,the term noir itself connects the Frenchness and Americanness.This paper tends to map out the film noir sensibilities in French content through unfolding the characteristics of femme fatale in two French noir films Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle(Breathless)(1960)and Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva(1981).展开更多
文摘The term film noir was coined by two French film critics Borde and Chaumenton in 1956 to describe American detective stories mode in the 1940s.Noir films were seen as a counter-cultural movement within Hollywood at that time,and the French new wave continued this feature in the 1960s.Therefore,the term noir itself connects the Frenchness and Americanness.This paper tends to map out the film noir sensibilities in French content through unfolding the characteristics of femme fatale in two French noir films Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle(Breathless)(1960)and Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva(1981).
