Borrowing from 1940s film noir, Lasky played with light and shadow to add a grittier feel ... crafting them with distinctive silhouettes and a high level of detail to help those light- ing ...

Welcome back to our queer film ... with the way light and shadow hits the characters to conceal their intentions and morality. The final image of the film, of two characters in silhouette waiting ...

Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed film Oppenheimer ... the tragedy were the Blast Shadows—silhouettes of people scorched into the ground by the blazing light of the nuclear bomb as ...

Talk about a stroke of film noir fate ... Q: With the shadows and silhouettes and striking compositions of so much noir, thanks to the noir masters of lighting like John Alton, would you say ...

The violence and cynicism that highlighted the plots of those earlier films, as well as the creative use of light and shadow, carry directly into the hardboiled detective stories that film noir is ...

Deep shadows, dim lighting, and visual composition evoke moodiness, cynicism, pessimism, and subjective psychological points of view. As in her earlier study of film noir, Blackout: World War II ...