Lesson 2 Saturday 11 January - Karen

In my session, we'll re-cap some of Film Noir's origin points that we introduced in Thursday's session and look at these in relation to Film Noir's production context. We'll look at the impact of:

• the Hays Code of Production
• the Studio System and 'B' movie production
• HUAC

 We'll also examine narrative approaches to Film Noir, and examine the appeal to contemporary film-makers with a look at The Usual Suspects, (Bryan Singer, 1995) and The Last Seduction, (John Dahl, 1994).