In contrast to gangster films, where the city is characterized as a place of excitement, film noir characterizes the city as a place of:

Didactic self-reflexivity in film is based on many of the principles set out by in elaborating his theory of EpicTheater:

The first stage of a rite of passage

An example of the classical Hollywood narrative is

Art should be true.

The falling action of the story is

The plot and story are basically the same thing.

The science fiction genre tends to thematically:

During the first ten years of film exhibition, narrative films

When a film uses Historical Realism it is always non-fiction.