Sökning: "noir fiction"
Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden noir fiction.
1. Trois nuances de noir : Étude architextuelle du roman policier Total Khéops de Jean-Claude Izzo
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionenSammanfattning : This study examines how the French bestselling detective novel Total Khéops (1995) by Jean-Claude Izzo relates to three literary sub-genres of detective fiction to which it mainly has been associated since it first was published: roman noir français (French roman noir), polar marseillais and Mediterranean noir. By assembling the most significant criterions of these sub-genres and analyzing their presence in Total Khéops, or its architextuality within the crime novel, this approach aims to reveal in what sub-genre this novel mainly should be categorized. LÄS MER
2. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Femme fatale: Kvinnorna i Blade Runner : En studie av visuell karaktär och kvinnlig representation i filmerna Blade Runner: The Final Cut och Blade Runner 2049
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : In this study I have compared the two movies Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2006) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) in regards to their visual identity and female representation. The first of these films is the latest version of Blade Runner, a movie which have undergone an unusual amount of editing and therefore exists in multiple iterations. LÄS MER
4. 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)
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/FilmvetenskapSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
