The Woman in Question
Witness to Murder
Cast a Dark Shadow
The Other Woman
No Escape
The 13th Letter
Series: Jane Doe
Stylistically this performative series of imagery references the dramatic lighting and the photographic staging devices employed by film noir cinematographers that peaked in popularity in 1944-55 [Ref].
The melodramatic elements of a crime committed or a fatal event unfolding before us; the use of chiaroscuro with dark interiors and partial reveals that implicates the viewer first as a voyeur and then as a narrator; the camera shots using disturbing oblique angles (known as the Dutch tilt); and the documentary-like use of black and white imagery typify the genre of noir, or black, cinema revealing narrative clues rather than painting a portrait of the subject.
