Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Active Femme Fatales Seeking Control and Independence Film noir started to form just before the United States entered World War II with films such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), High Sierra (1941), and Rebecca (1940). Film noir was the term invented by the French critics to explain a unique style in American film during the period after the war and reflects the dark atmosphere in American society (Moustakas 105). At the start of the war in 1939, women and men’s roles started to change. While men were at war, women had to be active members of society and take on more responsibility than they had before the war. In noir films, they started to reflect the...
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