Standing Out! Stepping Ahead!

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1955.

Film Noir

"The noir narrative confronts the protagonist with a rift in the familiar order of things or with a recognition that apparent normality is actually the antithesis of what it seems to be: it is brutal rather than benign, dehumanised not civilised. In the course of the story, it becomes clear that the things that are amiss cannot be dealt with rationally and cannot ultimately be put to rights."

~ Lee Horsley, Lancaster University

The Development of Post-war Literary and Cinematic Noir

Crimeculture (http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html)

Stanley Kubrick, Filmmaker

Strangelove was a film where much of its impact hinged on the dialogue, the mode of expression, the euphemisms employed. As a result, it's a picture that is largely destroyed in translation or dubbing.

2001, on the other hand, is basically a visual, nonverbal experience. It avoids intellectual verbalization and reaches the viewer's subconscious in a way that is essentially poetic and philosophic. The film thus becomes a subjective experience which hits the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does, or painting."

~ Stanley Kubrick (1969 interview: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0069.html )