Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this article is to evaluate the competing theories that variously explain the greater prevalence of undeclared employment in some countries either as: a legacy of under-development; a result of the voluntary exit from declared employment due ...
Williams, Colin C.
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Urban football narratives and the colonial process in Lourenço Marques [PDF]
, 2011 Support for Portuguese football teams, in Mozambique as well as in other former Portuguese colonies, could be interpreted either as a sign of the importance of a cultural colonial heritage in Africa or as a symbol of a perverse and neo-colonial ...
Alegi Peter. +20 more
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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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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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Desiring Futures: Hope, Technoscience, and Utopian Dystopia in Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, 2020 In this paper, I analyze the animated television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica based on a variety of literary critical methods: neo-noir criticism, feminist epistemology and studies of technoscience, and discussion of utopia/dystopia imagination.
Leo Chu
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M/C JournalThough the ‘official’ film noir period ended more than 60 years ago, the enigmatic allure of noir endures, lingering like the smoke from a femme fatale’s cigarette. IMDB defines the classic film noir period of American cinema as beginning with the film Underworld (1927) and ending with Touch of Evil (1958), while many consider that John Houston’s The ...
Rebekah Brammer +2 more
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Pesimist gerçekçilik ya da teknolojinin amansız tahakkümü: Tech-noir
ARTS: Artuklu Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler DergisiTür, geçmişten bugüne değin şiirden resme, tiyatrodan sinemaya kadar uzanan sanatsal ürünlerin sınıflandırılmasında kullanılagelmiş bir kavramdır.
Ece Erol
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Re-building the Idea of Being a Woman. The Audiovisual Legacy of Lila Crane
Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2019 This article gives a historical perspective on the route traced by women investigators in Hollywood audiovisual narrative. The starting point and main focus of the thrilling detective story at the heart of the enigma regarding being a woman is the ...
Laura Antón-Sánchez
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Double time : Facing the future in migration’s past [PDF]
, 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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RebecaPartindo da figura da femme fatale, o presente trabalho pretende analisar o modo como o conto Belinha de Rubem Fonseca, e o filme O lobo atrás da porta (2013), realizado por Fernando Coimbra, inspiram-se nesta personagem essencial do film noir. Para tal,
André Francisco
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