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of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...
In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...
what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
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...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
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...
(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...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
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...
conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...
drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...
Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...
and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...
definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...
bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...
wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...
aesthetic qualities of film noir. Even with the seductiveness of film noir, there is no dropping the history out of the debate. Th...
key films of the Hong Kong New Wave period" (Hall 1). This film has had tremendous influence over both Western and Asia filmmake...
the novel or the film precisely. Typically, films classified as film noir, but not all of them, focus on a murder or multiple mu...