Before of "The Neo-Noir 90s" reading I did not know about the meaning of noir,
but after I read the article, several times, and did some research in the internet I had a better idea of noir's meaning.
I remember watching some Mexican movies from that time of period, 40s and 50s, and the noir style was notirious. Neo noir article describe how in the film noir, the gloomy mood, martinis and cigarettes were of present.
Crime and suspense were a key of the film noir as well as the black and white colors invited the shadows to be present. Such visual style was mainly brought from the old continent, Europe, by some Germans and Austrians who escaped from the Nazism; even though, the noir vision was in part move by American hard-novelists as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cain (I am sure that I will learn about them in this course). Wet streets, fogbound and threatening as well as the sexy women but false were the atmosphere of this type of film. The glamour which film noir inspired it can be seen is the '40s-era monkey-fur jacket or at Camel advertise where an image of a 
provoking the audience to danger. The demand of teenagers displaced film noir out of cinematography,where today huge budgets are required and shadow-draped are not more atractive .
Even though film noir does not generate
directors like the idea and concept of noir. As "The Neo-Noir '90s" mentioned, "many of our most talented young filmmakers began in a noir mode"
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