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N‐Geranylated Amino Acid Surfactants with Low Critical Micelle Concentrations from Abundant, Naturally Derived Starting Materials

open access: yesChemistryOpen, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2025.
Cleaning Up Surfactants: Realising critical micelle concentrations lower than sodium dodecyl sulfate with sustainable surfactants prepared from amino acids and naturally occurring aldehydes. In this work, a simple method for the preparation of N‐alkylated amino acid surfactants in 1–2 steps is reported.
Brett L. Pollard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

European Film Noir

open access: yes, 2006
This chapter appears in a book edited by Spicer who also wrote the introductory essay. This book is the first sustained attempt to dislodge the paradigm of film noir as an exclusively American form, through detailed discussion of the development of film ...
Spicer, Andrew H.
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John W. Geissman: Never Let the You‐Know‐Who's Get You Down—There Is Too Much in Life to Experience and Learn From!

open access: yesPerspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.
Abstract My life in science, as a faculty member in Higher Education (The Academy), and as a proud member of AGU, reflects the fact that I am one of the very fortunate ones in the Geosciences who went through undergraduate and graduate years during the true blossoming of the science in the early years after the acceptance of Plate Tectonics.
John W. Geissman
wiley   +1 more source

A Companion to Film Noir

open access: yes, 2013
This edited collection contains 29 essays specially commissioned for this volume by leading scholars in the field. The volume is organised into 7 parts.
Spicer, Andrew H., Hanson, Helen
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Double time : Facing the future in migration’s past

open access: yes, 2013
Interpretations of Italian films about migration tend to refer to the historical experience of emigration or of colonialism as the historical coordinates through which these films are best understood.
Duncan, Derek Egerton
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Trump and the Resurgence of American Noir

open access: yesPersona Studies, 2016
This essay considers the political persona of Donald Trump as mediated by the imagery of hardboiled detective fiction and film noir. As responses to crises of capitalism, corruption, and social fracture, noir narratives provide critical ways of ...
Virginia Newhall Rademacher
doaj   +1 more source

Film Noir as Point de Capiton: Double Indemnity, Structure and Temporality

open access: yes, 2013
Reading noir and Lacan together can establish a structural corollary between the function of the signifier 'noir' in film criticism and the retroactive function of the point de capiton in Lacan's theory of language. Furthermore, at a narrative level, the
Tyrer, Ben; King's College London
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The gangster in film and literature: a study of a modern american monster / [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Estudo do gangster na literatura e no cinema hollywoodiano, desde seu surgimento no início da década de 1930, até a década de 1990.
Vugman, Fernando Simão
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Cicatrici: El secreto de sus ojos di Sacheri e Campanella

open access: yesBetween, 2012
In 2005 the Argentinian writer Eduardo Sacheri published The Question in Their Eyes (La pregunta de sus ojos).  The novel narrates on a double level, both fictional and temporal, the decision of a retired prosecutor to come to terms with a case of rape ...
Sandro Volpe
doaj   +1 more source

aspects of film noir : noir-criticism in it's contemporary media1940's developments: film & historypsychoanalysis' influence on film noir [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Diese Bachelorarbeit behandelt die Rezeption des film noir in den Printmedien der 40er Jahre. Diesbezüglich werden sowohl französische, wie auch amerikanische Beobachtungen untersucht und einander gegenübergestellt.
Fiedler, Felix Johannes
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