Key conventions of film noir titles

The title of a film noir is often representations of what the film is like;




- here is an example of a film noir cover from the 1947 film born to kill, the title alone lets you know it's going to be violent as it has the word 'kill'. The first thing that stands out for me on this cover is the title 'born to kill', the colour is blood red and it's in a font that looks like it could have been written by hand. It looks as if the title 'born to kill' has quotation marks either side, this could indicate that the sentence is said during the film.










- In class we've been analysing the 1944 film noir Double Idemnity, here is the cover of the film. The first thing that stands out for me is the title 'Double Idemnity' it's also blood red but however this title doesn't look like it's been hand written. This is a simple front cover with who we can only assume as the femme fatale and hero however it stands out. What also stands out is the hero holding the gun while hugging the femme fatal, and considering that we know most film noirs end with the femme fatal dying we assume that's what the hero is planning to do.