Essays about: "noir fiction"

Found 2 essays containing the words noir fiction.

1. 1. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
   Keywords : noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

   Abstract : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. READ MORE

3. 2. 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