Blog entry Six

Neo noirs protagonist is always associated with corruption. In film noir the male protagonist is often a detective or an otherwise social deprived person who sort of keeps to himself. Sometimes the male heroes are featured as odd people, their personality is a bit off in some ways but goes in line with nior. Who they are creates that feeling of social alienation and these hard boiled heroes are anti social loners that are subject to corruption and only when it presents itself in the way the protagonists wants it to, as we have seen in nior movies. The environments they live and work in are dark and scary city surroundings, often red-light districts, or otherwise places where the average person wouldn’t normally be seen at. Environments, like large office buildings. They often question who they are but are good personalities for the genre. Through their large scale surroundings. The tough guy is often marked by an excellent gift of speaking with another person. They have a slick talk when engaging conversation. Even if they are not always given the strongest intellect, this is a trait from the hard boiled novels. Their worlds are dominated by crime, corruption and cruelty. The protagonist often gets tangled up in some of these activities himself and gives in to the dark side if you will. And in addition to his interest in the erotic behavior which ultimately leads him to a self-destructing world. He is often the sucker of his own demise.

            He states that social issues such as race, class and gender change, as it has overtime. Though out the genre up until the time of neo noir it didn’t really have to change much, but after world war two people began to incorporate a new style. A style that the noir genre had to adapt to. Like Abram’s said the race gender and class, changed so the idea had to be in line with the changing society. The biggest changes to me at least were the architectural changes that went about that time period so certain camera techniques and various other things were tuned up. Also as Abrams says during the 1960s the nuclear family was emerging. And as we know nuclear power is not exactly a trait of the noir genre. So to change to that suburban setting during those “nuke” times was pretty difficult as I could imagine. And back to the structure of America, the architectural environment was tight nit and close together during the classic noir times. Then during the neo noir times after the war, America expanded greatly. Industrial landscapes were a huge part of The U.S and it forced the creators to go along with the structural changes of America. The detective in neo nior is both villain and detective but as I got from his article, it both and the same man. The protagonist in neo nior it seems like it always fighting himself in a way. And is, also in classic neo nior, on the verge of corruption. Over all the neo nior protagonist is to me at least changed a little bit, but not in a major way.