Essays about: "Henri-Georges Clouzot"

Found 1 essay containing the words Henri-Georges Clouzot.

  1. 1. Stuck in the Truck: Oil Dependency, Acceleration, and the Nature of Catastrophe : An Ecocritical Reading of The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Sonya Helgesson Ralevic; [2020]
    Keywords : The Wages of Fear; Le Salaire de la Peur; Henri-Georges Clouzot; ecocriticism; petro-fiction; Anthropocene; oil film; film noir; ethnographic film; spectacle;

    Abstract : As a medium of modernity, film has always been entwined with the energy regime sustaining it. This thesis is interested in the interrelation between film and oil, and approached as a piece of petro-fiction, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s film The Wages of Fear (1953) is subject to a close, ecocritical analysis. READ MORE