what did expressionism influence
Expressionism was an art movement associated mainly with German painting and film of the early 20th century, particularly following World War I. Expressionism had a strong influence on American film noir, due to the migration of German directors to Hollywood in the 1930s.he Scream (1893), by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, an important precursor of German Expressionism. Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train: the portrait of St. Francis by Bruno Anthony's unbalanced mother. Bruno takes this as an image of his father, thus bringing in Freudian psychology as well.