1. Film Noir Styles in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
... , but typically using questionable methods to do so. "Audiences and artists were now eager to take a less optimistic view of things"," Schrader suggests (Schrader, 55), a view that reflects the public's reaction and emotional frame of mind during World War II. Recognizing that capacity for immorality in themselves, and seeing themselves a component part of society at large, artists and audiences ... , or even (after a while) establish setting. If anything, they serve to establish only the realism of the setting, without providing information relevant to understanding the story of the fil...
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