一种面向大众的现代文化产品或许可以帮助我们理解纽曼等画家的原始主义,尤其是让我们明白,这种主义是如何关注悲剧和恐惧的。黑色电影呈现悲剧和恐惧的形式,使得它与神话制造者对原始的解读产生了联系,也凸显出这些主题在当时美国文化中的特点与地位。在电影评论者眼中,神话是黑色电影的重要元素。用雷蒙德·达格纳特(Raymond Durgnat)的话来说就是:“世界上第一部悬疑戏剧是《俄狄浦斯王》(Oedipus Rex),它具有极为深刻的情节逆转;一个人在这部戏当中同时扮演了侦探、凶手和刽子手三种角色。还 A modern cultural product for the general public may perhaps help us to understand the primitiveism of painters such as Newman, and in particular let us understand how this doctrine focuses on tragedy and fear. The black film is in the form of tragedies and fears, making it connected with mythologists’ original interpretation, and highlighting the features and status of these themes in American culture at that time. In the eyes of film critics, myths are an important element of black movies. In the words of Raymond Durgnat: ”The world’s first suspense drama is Oedipus Rex, which has a very profound plot reversal; a man In this movie, both detective, murderer and executioner play the same role