The Motley View blog has two very erudite and concise articles on chiaroscuro lighting and analepsis in film noir referencing Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944):
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Hi! D’Ambra,
Thank~you! for the links to both articles.
“The Motley View blog has two very erudite and concise articles on chiaroscuro lighting and analepsis in film noir referencing Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944)”…To be honest with you, I hope that I am able to “truly” comprehend both articles after I read them.
“Lighting Form in Classical Hollywood Cinema
The Function of Chiaroscuro Lighting and Analepsis in Double Indemnity.” Ahh! so there is a “technical” term for the word “feedback” when it comes to this thing called film noir and the use of “feedback” in the film.
I think “flashbacks” were used quite effectively, in
Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 film “Out of the Past.”
Btw, I think I “learn” something “new” and “interesting” every time I visit your website!
Thanks,
dcd
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To be honest ‘analepsis’ is new to me too…
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“In history, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time …”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analepsis
DCD,(Correction)
Ahh! so there is a “technical” term for the word “feedback” (“flashback”) when it comes to this thing called film noir and the use of “feedback” (“flashback”) in the film. .(The “technical” word that I should have used is “flashback” and not “feedback.”) Unless, I was confused by actor Fred MacMurray, speaking into the hand~held dictaphone and substituted the word “feedback” for “flashback.”
dcd
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