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(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

the novel or the film precisely. Typically, films classified as film noir, but not all of them, focus on a murder or multiple mu...

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

Lord once of shed, garage and garden, Each with its proper compliment of tackle"...

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...

In five pages the heroism of the old sailor Santiago is examined within the context of Hemingway's short novel. Seven sources are...

This paper consists of 5 pages discusses how film noir and classical Hollywood were influenced by Tourner's 1947 film. There are ...

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

in the physical form of Robbie. This is accomplished through broad strokes of story lines in the book and long film shots intermix...

This is all part and parcel of the postmodern style employed by the Coens, which they use to great effect. Postmodernism involves ...

equipment someone has the responsibility of guarding it. These watches, like most everything else in the military, begin and end a...

they strike without warning and can do tremendous damage. At this point the student will want to consider an experience in an ear...

to toss older people onto the scrap heap. This paper considers the way in which reactions to phrases about aging inform a persons ...

In ten pages this report discusses the profound impact of Brazilian men's machismo on the country's women and children. Eight sou...

or archetypes, tend to lend an instant type of history and emotional context for the character, it can be said. The hero, for exam...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...