Mark wrote:
"Not sure if this applies to Warner, but their "cheapness"
implies it might. I seem to remember that a college professor
of mine, Douglas Gomery, wrote an article about film noir's
distinctive look coming from studios cutting costs by
lowering the wattage of the lighting on their movies."
There's an article about that, alright, but I don't think it
was by Gomery. (Don't remember, though, who it is by.) The
main argument was about the fourties B films, not Warner
Bros's pictures that were mainly directed at the A movie
market, at least those with Cagney, Robinson and
Bogart.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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