The Representation Of Women In Eva And Lilith's Film Noir '

Noir (french film noir) is a cinematic term applied to the Hollywood crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s, which capture the atmosphere of pessimism, mistrust, frustration and cynicism typical of American society during World War II war and the first years of the Cold War. The term "black film", or "film-noir," was first used in 1946 by the French critic Nino Frank to designate a style that gained popularity in American cinema in the mid-1940s . It is characterized by a criminal plot, a dark atmosphere of cynical fatalism and pessimism, blurring the line between hero and antihero, relative realism of action and dark lighting of scenes, usually night scenes. Women usually act as false characters that can not be trusted; on the other hand, they motivate the main male characters ,or they are represented as a ‘’perfect wife’’ which is silent and submissive.

Femme fatal

Eva and Lilith, Salome and Cleopatra, sirens and succubus - they can all be called fatal. They are united by the ability to use their feminine nature, their sexuality as a weapon that allows them to dominate over fascinated men. The image of femme fatale in the cinema appeared in the 1910s. At the initial stage of the development of cinematography, fatal women remained surreal, semi-mythical creatures, eternally young, eternally desired and eternally dangerous not only for others, but for