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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Noir

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Noir is a literary genre, similar to hardboiled genre, with a difference in that the protagonist of the story isn’t a detective but instead either a victim, a suspect, or a criminal. Usually the protagonist of the noir fiction deals with the legal, political, or other system that is corrupt, leading to a lose-lose situation for them. Hard-boiled detective fiction is a genre that shares some characters and settings with crime fiction. The protagonist is a detective, who tends to be cynical, witnesses the violence of organized crime, and deals with a legal system as corrupt as the crime itself. Noir has a particular style to it which made it different from the other genres at the time. Although the Noir style didn’t represent something completely new to literature and films, some aspects of the style were still new to …show more content…

This literary style came to flourish in France, around the 1930s, before the war. Noir was inspired by literature and previous film history and the period of time it grew out of. These genres gained so much popularity because of how well it could relate to the audience. Noir and hard-boiled stories took advantage of the pre-war mood of anxiety, fear and suspicion. Mistrust, paranoia, and bleakness are some recurring themes in this genre. The Noir and Hard-boiled genres are two similar styles of writing that are different from the style of writing that was present at the time; giving way to new literature and films that gained popularity over time. There are many conventions to the Noir and hard-boiled genres that make it unique, one of which being the anti-hero, a main character who is usually the

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