Film Noir: "A Certain Disagreeable Reality"

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Film Noir: "A Certain Disagreeable Reality"

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Film noir (dark film) emerged as a major genre of fiction writing and film after World War II. It was a style that was characterized by a grainy reality that was clearly present in literature and visible on film. The purpose of this lesson is to acquaint students with one of the major genres to emerge in pop culture during the mid-twentieth century.

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12

Subject:

United States History, Film

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

The National First Ladies' Library

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Keywords:

Alienation, Cinema, Film noir, Pop culture, Movies, Loneliness

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

The National First Ladies' Library

Contributor:

Bette Brooks

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http://www.firstladies.org/curriculum/choose.aspx

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Arts, History

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

7. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.

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Educational Technology Standards & Expectations (2005)

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