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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"noir"”.
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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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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 M. …
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
… 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 tropes …
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The socio-political dimension of film noir
… 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 and …
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La légende du Chat Noir. Genèse, dynamique, discours
… que le cabaret artistique et littéraire du Chat Noir (1881-1897) est omniprésent sur la scène littéraire de la fin du XIXe siècle en tant que périodique, lieu de sociabilité bohème et incubateur des mouvements littéraires fin-de-siècle, son rôle reste encore de nos jours très méconnu. Il n’est ni …
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The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods
… fatales: the ones of hard-boiled fiction/classic noir and contemporary noir. Moreover, it generates several comparisons among those aforementioned categories, and extrapolates on them. Third wave feminism and how it draws relevance/is significant to the Bound and The Last Seduction films is …
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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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Flawed Feminism: An Exploration of Femininity in Contemporary Domestic Noir
… misunderstood, weak, powerless victims. Domestic noir, a subgenre of crime fiction, does the opposite. Authors of domestic noir fiction dig into the female experiences, seeking to understand and write women characters who represent feminism and femininity despite any shortcomings they have. In Big …
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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 to …
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… 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 (Masuda …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… portfolio of lithographs entitled Le Tumulte Noir as an expression of the simultaneously progressive, celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people …
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Thèmes, structure et signification dans Le jour est noir de Marie-Claire Blais
… dans une troisième partie, la forme du Jour est Noir, d'en isoler la structure. Après avoir scruté tous ces aspects de l'oeuvre, nous nous pencherons sur le sens global du roman, sur sa signification profonde."
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La danse du Tutuguri ou le rite du soleil noir : une performance textuelle d'Antonin Artaud.
Antonin Artaud, author of the famous "The Theatre and Its Double" and the concept of Theatre of Cruelty, arrived in Mexico in 1936 with the intent of revising the paradigm of Western theatre by emphasizing its strong connection with life forces. Artaud considered theatre to be a spiritual and …
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Effects of aspects of terroir on the phenolic composition of New Zealand Pinot noir wines
… content is an important dimension of Pinot noir wine quality. This study aimed to find generic relationships between the phenolic content of Pinot noir wines produced from well-defined locations (single vineyards) in New Zealand, as determined from various chemical analyses, and aspects of …
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Reflective mulch effects on the grapevine environment, Pinot noir vine performance, and juice and wine characteristics
Reflective mulches were applied in a cool climate vineyard in Canterbury, New Zealand. Materials used were waste products: mussel shells (MS) and green (GG) and clear (CG) recycled crushed glass. A control of bare soil was also included. MS and CG were light coloured while GG and CON were dark. …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
<p>The character of the <em>femme fatale</em> exists as a highly stereotypical figure in American popular culture. Although the character’s antecedents are often located in the biblical figure of Eve, the <em>femme fatale</em> did not become a cultural icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled …
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"Contribution A La Titrologie Romanesque: Variations Sur Le Titre ""le Rouge Et Le Noir."" (french Text)"
La critique litteraire a generalement neglige et sous-estime le role des titres dans le processus de la creation et de la connaissance romanesques. Si certains titres ont traditionnellement attire l'attention, c'est toujours dans la mesure ou ceux-ci ne respectaient pas une des clauses de ce qu'on …
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