Humphrey Bogart) who gets involved with a woman who hires him to delve into the criminal underworld to solve a case. Many of these tales are based on dime-store novels (also known as "pulp fiction") written by authors like Dashell Hammett ("The Maltese Falcon"). Other popular noirs of the period often tell the tale of an average joe who is put into a difficult situation that continues to get worse‚ pushing him to his ethical‚ mental‚ physical‚ or moral limits. Noir is most distinguished by its effective
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film noir (1940-1950): American film noir commonly refers to classic gangster movies from the ’40s and ’50s‚ often adaptations of hard-boiled‚ contemporary pulp fiction‚ e.g. by Raymond Chandler. Classic examples of American film noir are The Maltese Falcon (1941)‚ Kiss of Death (1947)‚ The Naked City (1948)‚ The Asphalt Jungle (1950)‚ Kiss Me Deadly (1955). A complete site could easily be devoted to this category alone. Modern film noir (1950-): This is not really an established label‚ but I think
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world which he had devoted his life to combating. Raymond Chandler labels Hammetts character of Spade as a ?cynical‚ tough individual who maintains his code of honour in a world tarnished by deception and betrayal at all levels of society? In ?The Maltese Falcon? Spade is described as the "blond Satan." Whilst his objective and inner good is clear to the readers‚ other characters struggle to see Spade in his true light‚ and describe him as a ?wild and unpredictable man‚ and his motives are never quite
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In Chinatown‚ she is the widow of a murdered city official with a secret she is keeping from the rest of the word. In The Maltese Falcon‚ perhaps the most widely known detective film noir‚ she is the woman at the heart of a missing person’s case that keeps the audience guessing through the entire running time. As defined by the website Film Noir Studies‚ “she refuses to play the
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his life. Hammett used his experiences as a detective to first write short stories‚ which were published in The Smart Set‚ and later in the popular crime magazine Black Mask. He went on to publish five extremely successful novels including the Maltese Falcon. Hammett’s portrayal of the lives and
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Round 3 of the 2014 NRL season marked a weekend that would forever change the lives of many rugby league stars. One year into his first grade career with the Melbourne Storm‚ 23 year old Jordan McLean‚ alongside fellow teammates Jesse and Kenny Bromwich‚ became involved in a dangerous tackle on Newcastle Knights front-rower‚ Alex McKinnon. The two brothers took hold of McKinnon‚ but needed assistance to bring him to ground. McLean came to their call‚ making it a three man tackle
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nature of the programing allowed the rapid proliferation of TV’s and made the industry a full-blown threat the movies. The answer for Hollywood was already in the works long before TV became relevant. In the early forties‚ movies like Rebecca‚ the Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane were redefining the Hollywood depiction of reality. It may have been a wartime shift in perceptions that allowed these more realistic and darker themes to be successful. The 1948 “Paramount decision” began the actual 30-year
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Joshua Winchester Prof. Melissa Winters English Comp Persuasive Research Essay Final Revised December 6‚ 2011 Pulp Novels: A Golden Age of Fiction Imagine a young boy walking down the street during the worst days of the Great Depression. He stops at a newsstand‚ and pulls out a dime from a nearly worn pants pocket. Holding the dime in his hand‚ he surveys the long rows of magazines with their glossy covers and wild titles. Upon selecting a magazine‚ he surrenders his dime to the newsman‚ then
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Throughout the history of literature and film‚ women have been portrayed in endless ways. Women have been depicted as being helpless‚ ruthless‚ motherly‚ or weak among many others. The most common portrayal of women‚ in my opinion‚ is that we are either objects of desire or subservient to the more "superior" gender‚ that is‚ men. In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Theresa Cha’s Dictee‚ women are‚ indeed‚ portrayed in different ways. I want to compare the representation of women from both works of
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Gavan Duffy TVF Media analysis assignment Classical Hollywood Cinema In the following essay I have been asked to write a 2000 word essay discussing the main characteristic features of the classical Hollywood narrative film. This is a style of clarity where the viewer should not be confused about space‚ time‚ events or characters motivations and although a number of classical narrative traditions have been modified‚ or even rejected‚ this unfussy style of making movies it is still very much
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