Daily Log

Thursday, May 27

Bogie to Noir

We explored the significance of Humphrey Bogart as an icon through a Hitch Pod video called "Bogie Noir" which contains numerous homages to Bogart from European (mostly French) films. We read and interpreted a short piece on Bogart by Alastair Cooke examining Bogart's role as "the only possible idealisdt" -- a hard-boiled, anti-establishment one -- in the WWII era.
Then we looked briefly at the French infatuation with not just Bogart but "film noir" and we began to explore what is meant by that term.