Paint it black: Orson Welles’s ways in film noir

Abstract

Film noir marked an extremely important era in cinema because stories were narrated with new visual aesthetic, as well as for a presence of new look over reality. This film genre collects a series of artistic inheritances captured in movies that give heterogeneous characteristic. But film noir’s classic titles differsfrom Orson Welles’s style, who establishes his own look and opens new paths to cinema.