Representation of the detective in Film Noir

The Detective in Film Noir.

What does representation mean?
The representation of something of how something is portrayed. When portraying a person these factors are tenderly used.
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Class and status
Sexuality
Physical ability /disability 

The Detective in Film noir is one of the main character which is very predictable character, he drinks, he smokes his age however NORMALLY is 40-50's. Its very uncommon to see young detective in Film noirs. The detective is wordly-wise. He knows what his talk about which gains him 'respect' or that what he thinks anyway. Really the detective is vulnerable, sly and patronising however this is because of the time period there wasn’t equality within genders so the detective often thought he was better than women which women (the Femme Fatale often uses this at her advantage) The detective shows this in the way which he speaks for example 'darling' and 'petel' which may come across as patronising for the women. Which in today's society this wouldn't acceptable because it would come across as 'creepy' ECT.


The detective in our Film Noir