I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) [PDF]
, 2017 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959 ...
Reba Wissner
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"That Old Black Magic":Noir and Music in Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad [PDF]
, 2019 Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s Blacksad is a comic series that evokes the noir tradition through thematic and visual callbacks to noir films and comics. As they use noir tropes, the comics illuminate the tensions in both noir and comics.
Austin, Hailey J.
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Zhang Yimou's 'Blood simple':cannibalism, remaking and translation in world cinema [PDF]
, 2014 Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop (2009) remakes the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984) in a way that re-imagines the earlier film in a Chinese setting, adapting and recreating the narrative, but the film cannot be regarded as being aimed ...
Evans, Jonathan
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The lost brother, animality, utilitarian reason and politics as constructive pillars of film noir nowaday [PDF]
, 2018 El siguiente artículo analiza una de las producciones audiovisuales argentinas más importantes del año 2017, la película El otro hermano, de Adrián Caetano, trasnposición cinematográfica de la novela Bajo este sol tremendo de Carlos Busqued.
Setton, Román Pablo
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I, Anna (2012) and the Femme Fatale: Neo-Noir and Representations of Female Old Age [PDF]
, 2014 Through textual analysis this paper explores neo-noir film I, Anna (Southcombe, 2012). This paper promotes the concept of the femme fatale in modern film noir as having much to offer women and ageing studies.
Grist, Hannah
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Reservoir dogs and the noir male : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Media Studies at Massey University [PDF]
, 1999 This thesis presents a study of the noir male - the protagonist from the body of films known as film noir The purpose of the study is to show that a composite of the noir male character can be found constructed in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 directorial ...
Perkins, Murray Bruce
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Film noir: análise e identificação das características, padrões e clichés do film noir clássico [PDF]
, 2016 O film noir, embora seja reconhecido sem dificuldade na cultura cinéfila e até na cultura contemporânea de massas em geral, não pode ainda assim ser definido instantaneamente pelo seu ambiente ou pela presença de determinadas personagens.
Fragoso, Abigail Rito
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Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The symbiosis between nitrogen‐fixing rhizobia and plants is considered mutually beneficial, yet its indirect effects on other organisms remain understudied. We examined how rhizobia symbiosis in Phaseolus vulgaris influences the behaviour and performance of Diabrotica balteata larvae. Specifically, we tested larval preference for nodulated (R+
Camilo Rivera +5 more
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Not a comeback : the persistence of decadence in film noir [PDF]
, 2016 English Senior Honors ThesisIn this thesis, I will argue that the decadent movement survives in twentieth-century America through noir films, or what I refer to as "noir decadence." However, noir films make decadence more accessible to a wider audience ...
Arnold, Elizabeth
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