Almost everyone in the world grows up reading‚ listening to‚ or watching fairy tales as a child. These fairy tales started out as entertaining stories‚ but as they were handed down from one generation to the next‚ they slowly became more than that. They have grown to be of great importance because they teach children how to act and present oneself in the world. One such fairy tale is Cinderella. On the surface‚ it seems to be a simple story about a young woman whose wishes come true. However‚ the
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Film noir is generally associated with a ‘dark’ type of film in the era following WWII. Film’s that are categorized in this genre are marked by a style that generally contains certain distinguishing elements – dark rooms with Venetian blinds‚ dark alleys‚ rain-slicked streets‚ dark offices and low key lighting. The plot usually deals with the dark aspects of humanity-greed‚ murder‚ deceit and paranoia. There are also distinguishing characters‚ the main character a detective or an investigator usually
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Film Noir is most often seen as a man’s world- the hard boiled detective is the ultimate masculine hero‚ and the he fits right into the dirty world around him. However‚ with a shift in perspective‚ we see that just maybe the opposite gender are the ones who are the heroes of the genre. The women are certainly memorable. Through analyzation of the typical hero’s journey and comparison to the stories of the women in film noir‚ we see that they are the true heroes of the genre. This again begs the
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demonstrate the effect of the male gaze in French oil paintings‚ almost all drawn from the extensive collection from Carnegie Museum of Art and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The ten selected works feature one or more female sitters and are painted by male artists from 1870 through 1910. The concept of the gaze in examining visual culture deals with how the audience views the subjects in the presented work‚ in this case‚ oil paintings. There are multiple forms of the gaze that can be characterized by
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Media genres are a reflection of society. Film noir is a movie that conveys a mood of pessimism‚ fatalism‚ menace and cynical characters. French critics used it to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s. The term literally means ‘Black Film’ and features extremely negative themes. Fedora hats‚ trench coats and nighttime make up some of the distinguishing features of film noir. Film Noir of this era is associated with low-key black and white visual styles that have roots in
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Before World War II‚ the quintessential film contained bright‚ happy‚ and optimistic tones. However‚ when the United States entered the battlefield‚ motion pictures became less optimistic. As Americans discovered the circumstances of the war‚ the filmmakers of the time felt hopeless as well. Ultimately‚ movies became hard boiled‚ unheroic‚ and unromantic. This movement is known as film noir (or black film) because the movies of this era contain a dark mood and tone. It would continue to thrive until
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Existentialism and Film Noir Existentialism and its worldview are believed to have derived from Nietzsche’s provocative and controversial statement “God is dead”. The underlying meaning to Nietzsche’s controversial statement is that empirical natural science has replaced metaphysical explanations of the world. As a result of this‚ according to Nietzsche we no longer have any sense of who and what we are as human beings. He concludes that no foundation exists anymore for the meaning and value of
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The concept of the male gaze is the idea that the audience is forced to view women through the eyes of a hetereosexual male. In regards to the depiction of female criminals in the media‚ the male gaze views them as victims. The woman is almost always looked at as though she was somehow the victim‚ and that the other person involved is at fault. Though‚ if the woman in the case is homosexual‚ she will then be viewed as a man hater‚ because she is not interested in men. She will also be viewed as the
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14‚ 2017 The Shifting of a Male’s Gaze According to the feminist literary theory “The Male Gaze”‚ literary texts have a tendency to portray the world and women from a masculine point of view. These texts present women in terms of stereotypes and as objects of male pleasure. This usually occurs through the way males in a novel describe‚ talk about‚ and view women. In “The Male Gaze‚” there is often one character‚ usually male‚ who is more extreme in his male gaze attitudes towards women than the other
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The term film noir was coined by French critics for 1940s-50s American films that shared a dark sensibility and a dark lighting style‚ such as Double Indemnity (1944)‚ Out of the Past (1947)‚ and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Many theorists related the common noir attributes and aesthetic elements to a post war society characterised by insecurity about gender roles‚ the economy‚ changing definitions of race‚ and nuclear technology. One of the cultural problems the term genre attempts to
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