History of film noir

The years immediately following the end of World War Two marked the start of a crucial phase in the creation, definition and popularising of both literary and cinematic noir. There were several concurrent developments: the Hollywood production of a growing number of pessimistic, downbeat crime films, the post-war release in Europe of a large backlog of American films, the publication in France of a new series of crime novels and the appearance in America of a new kind of book, the paperback original. Films released in America just before the end of the war. The first detective film to use the shadowy, nihilistic noir style in a definitive way was the pivotal work of novice director John Huston in the mystery classic The Maltese Falcon, which presented a new, darker perspective on the characters and themes of hard-boiled fiction with grim tone to the material. Many sources have claimed that director Boris Ingster's and RKO's Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) was the first full-featured film noir. Film noir stems from b movies where they could push boundaries and experiment, As b movies they had to be cheap and invented new ideas, concepts and had to make do with what they could afford. Europeans fled from nazi to America some into Hollywood and with them brought mood, darkness, anxiety. German expressionism helped with the mood lighting use of sunrise.