Short essay: To write this short essay, you need to watch Out of the Past (1947) complete and at least the first twenty minutes of Sunset Boulevard (1950). Xavier has streaming rights to these films and they are available via the Canvas site. The narrated powerpoint is also intended to help you with this essay.
*** Hollywood reached the peak of its influence in the roughly ten years after 1937. What factors explain the rapid decline of Hollywood in the years after 1947? Did any of those factors relate to Hollywood’s earlier successes? How did the distinctive cultural form known as “film noir” reflect those factors? In its depiction of the city, of politics and civic life, of personal commitment and interpersonal relationships, did film noir address or capitulate to the various challenges facing the movie industry?
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