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wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...
(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...
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 ...
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...
what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...
In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
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...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
(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 ...
more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...
to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...
as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...
The Replicants in The Blade Runner were genetically engineered, and yet while their initial data was programmed and they had a lif...
This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...
does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...
of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...
somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...
and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...
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...
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...