Film gris
Film gris ( German " gray film " ) is a series of films from the late 1940s and early 1950s that emerged within the genre or the movement of the film noir.
Definition
The term film gris was created in 1985 by the film historian Thom Andersen in his essay Red Hollywood. He describes a series of films that are classified as part of a film noir, thriller emerged pessimistic of the 1940s and worked to reach " major psychological and social realism." It Andersen was referring specifically to 1947-1951 resulting films had been produced, written or directed by a majority left filmmakers. He cited, among other works by Jules Dassin, Robert Rossen, Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, Abraham Polonsky and John Berry, all of whom were no longer working in Hollywood because of their political stance during the anti-communist McCarthy era, but John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. Repeats emerging themes and motifs are the emphasis of social inequality within the capitalist system, class barriers and antagonisms that protect the blurring of boundaries between farms and crime, police corruption or the inability of the law to its citizens.
On the origin of the term film gris wrote Andersen, this seemed to be appropriate because " they taught us to Communism with desolation and gloom [in the original: ' greyness ' = gray ] equate, and these films are often dreary and depressing ." As an " exemplary performer " of these films he saw John Garfield.
James Naremore pointed in More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts to the problem of the concept towards: To use Charles Higham, Joel Greenberg and John Tuska same term to delineate such films within the film noir that as compared to the "black " representatives Indemnity greater weight have towards the melodramatic. However, Andersen's definition has changed in the film analysis mainly enforced. In addition to the filmmakers mentioned by Andersen Naremore suggested the inclusion of Orson Welles and become known as the Hollywood Ten filmmakers.
Filmography
Only by Thom Andersen " film gris " classified Movies: