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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Film Noir"”.
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
… that surround what critics have designated ‘film noir’ and its relationship to that branch of modern American literature identified as ‘hard- boiled fiction’. Thus, the main subject matter for the thesis consists of selected films noirs from 1944—46, and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, James …
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The socio-political dimension of film noir
… fierce violence. French critics called them <i>films noirs</i> (black films). These movies presented a critical vision of the social injustice present in the American capitalist society. This thesis examines the socio-political dimension of <i>film noir</i> firstly through its social, literary …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
… presence in three cinematic eras: classic film noir, neo-conservative retro noir, and millennial neo-noir. Feminist film criticism tends to identify the femme fatale as a protofeminist, a productive transgressor of social norms whose worth has only been posteriorly discovered. In opposition …
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… of Nikkatsu studio’s appropriation of American film noir aesthetics to come to terms with Japan’s changing national identity and regional role in the post- World War II period by examining the shift from domestic urban issues to regional criminal activity across three major films: Rusty Knife …
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
… the structural, thematic, and visual elements of film noir through the conventions of musical comedy and thereby subjects both genres to affectionate satire. This essay explores the connections between these idiosyncratic forms of entertainment, particularly in the ways that noir devices and …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… ubiquitously applied to any seductive woman in film, television, or other media, regardless of the whether or not the woman functions as a villain or a sex object. This dissertation asserts a specific definition of the<em> femme fatale</em> and locates the character in multiple popular texts …
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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
This dissertation develops a theory of film noir as sovereign-image, a meta-generic and meta-cinematic discourse that confronts the viewer with the biopolitical ambivalence of the cinematic apparatus but enjoins her to nonetheless affirm its normative use. I argue that classical American noir …
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Re-examining the maladjusted text: post-war America, the Hollywood Left and the problem with Film Noir
Film noir is a term created after fact and applied back to films from a previous period and studies have often conflated very different films and privileged some facets over others in an endeavour to structure a definition. Some scholars have identified that a relatively small group of films came …
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Femme noir : a subcategory of neo noir film
This study identifies a new subcategory of film noir, the femme noir. Traditional film noir films use gendered binaries, male gaze and scopophilic treatment of the female characters to limit and fragment women characters. This dynamic is most obvious in the binary between the ‘looking’ male …
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Screen-to-measure: An Interdisciplinary and Embodied Approach to the Investigation of Film Noir Costumes Informed by Lady in the Dark (Mitchell Leisen, USA, 1944) and Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA, 1944)
Although film noir has been the subject of a significant amount of film scholarship, there is very little work that focuses on the costume design of classic Hollywood film noir. There is no scholarship on the making process of costumes in the studio system. Yet over three decades (1990-2020), the …
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Etude de l'interaction entre GpJ, une protéine du bactériophage Lambda, et LamB, une protéine de la membrane externe des bactéries gram-négatives
… Charbit (Paris, France). Grâce à la Technique du Film Noir (BLM), il a été permis d’observer que MBP-gpJ, après expression dans E.coli et purification, intéragit grâce au fragment de GpJ avec l’extrêmité extracellulaire de LamB. Cette intéraction se traduit par un blocage complet et réversible des …
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SEQUENCE
Sequence: Meta-Noir Narratives is a series of ink drawings and specialty prints that reflect the tone and mood of film noir. This tone and mood is obtained by implementation of a 'noir filter.' The filter is applied to appropriated images from contemporary motion pictures. The selection of these …
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Dreamfaire
… forms of communication, while the integration of film noir and the golden age of American animation references helps to connect it to American culture beyond the written page.
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
… is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the American …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
… a shadow. The play is a pastiche in style of the film noir genre, using genre conventions to ease the audience into a familiar world of detectives and crime before undermining the assumptions by including the philosophical elements. The accompanying essay analyses the considerations and decisions …
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Bollywood Broads: Reconstructing the Femme Fatale in Popular Indian Film
… currently one of the most prolific and lucrative film centers in the world. Its production of the "Bollywood" popular film has attracted billions in audience members outside the nation of India, many of whom do not belong to Indian culture in the Diaspora. The significance of this influence draws …
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Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness: An Experimental Short Film
<p>As an artist and Film Studies student, I saw the capstone option as an opportunity to consolidate academia with the art of filmmaking into one project. This became <em>Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness</em>, an experimental short film written, directed, and edited by me. It is a film …
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Romance, revolution and regulation: colonialism and the US-Mexico border in American Cold War film.
… 1950s saw perhaps the largest number of American films set on and around the US-Mexico border of any period of the twentieth century. This thesis investigates why this concentration of films appeared at this point in time. It argues that rather than responding to the changes in policy and practice …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
Southern noir conjoins the two seemingly antithetical words in a telling fashion. The word noir conjures images of cheap films about detectives, criminals, and luckless men scurrying across a city at night with expressionistic shadows and light play, a foreboding sense of doom, and deadly seductive …
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