Similar Products-Definition of film noir&Conventions

 Definition-a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"

Conventions:
-Low-key lighting
Bleak urban setting
Corrupt
Cynical characters
Black+White
Set in 1940s - 1950s                               

American

Filmed at night

Narriator

Creating shadows from lighting

Glamorous female actresses

Set in a city

No handheld camera

Interesting camera angles

Tone

Adetective is usually the anti-hero