How do the specific historical contexts of the Second World War and the Cold War inform the narrative conventions of Film noir and Neo noir ?
How does Blade Runner and the Maltese Falcon present masculinity? and how do those portrayals differ from each other ?
How did the portrayal of women of women in these two films draw from the social context of the time?
How does Blade Runner achieve genre hybridity and how many elements of classic noir does the film contain when it is compared from the Maltese Falcon ?
How do the male and female characters portray the gender norms of the time and how are they reinforced ?
