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Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir: The cultural depiction of the death of the American Dream | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir: The cultural depiction of the death of the American Dream. When Dashiell Hammet’s novel,. Was first published in 1929 it was heralded as a revolution of the detective fiction genre. The. Claimed it to be the best detective novel [they had] ever read and. Noted that it transcended the tawdry gum-shoeing of the ten-cent magazine (qtd. in Marling, Dashiell. 87) The exclusive and aristocratic. However, propelle...
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Notes on Exploitation Cinema | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. Notes on Exploitation Cinema. Industrial ideology behind the so-called ‘exploitation’ film. How to Undress in Front of Your Husband. 1937) and perhaps most incredibly,. The Strange Love Life of Adolf Hitler. What changed between Esper’s hey-day and the late nineteen fifties/early sixties that produced such a definitive delineation between pre- and post-Decision exploitation cinema? THE EXPLOITATION FILM AS HISTORY: Wild in the Streets, In the 1950s te...
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The Last Great American Films? Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Exorcist. | Wonderbread
https://pleasantfluff.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/the-last-great-american-films-easy-rider-two-lane-blacktop-the-exorcist
A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. The Last Great American Films? Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Exorcist. Denying that the period retrospectively known as the New Hollywood (often bookmarked for the sake of conceptual bookkeeping with the release of Arthur Penn’s. Michael Shedlin, in his overview ( Police Oscar ) of William Friedkin’s. 1971) and subsequent interview with Friedkin, post-. Notes that, in a statement bordering on the bleeding obvious, “the great majority of com...
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Wonderbread: The Next Generation | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. Wonderbread: The Next Generation. Wonderbread, for the first time in full surround sound and Smell-O-Vision. A free-standing domain name and hosting autonomous of WordPress.com (incredibly generous though their pre-installed WordPress service happens to be), from which we’ll be doing our publishing and posting from now on. Catch us on the flipside: http:/ www.pleasantfluff.com. By Martin Kingsley on July 14, 2009. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Drama, Narrative and Restricted Fields of Action | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. Drama, Narrative and Restricted Fields of Action. Critical couple David Bordwell. In their jointly authored textbook. Set entirely in a circus ring), Reginald Rose’s. Adapted into a single-set Academy Award-nominated ensemble film. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Adapted into the single-set film. Famously directed by Alfred Hitchcock. To simply name a few. Establishing a restricted field to mean the restriction of the narrative to the fewest possible se...
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The Herd: Summerland | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. I promised you good people and The Herd that I would review their stunning album. That was about ten months ago. I’m sorry. I got distracted with uni and other writing projects and, after a while, I felt the moment had passed and it was too late. This morning, however, I was like ‘No, Dammit! That album is still awesome and the people must be told! 8217; So here it is. The Herd’s. Better late than never. Encapsulates everything that is great about.
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Astronomy Class: Exit Strategy | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. Astronomy Class: Exit Strategy. My sincerest apologies to. For my comments about them below. I have just listened to thier latest album. And retract what I said about them never quite reaching thier potential. Rest assured, a review of. Will be up soon, expounding its awesomeness! I have noticed, since my review of. Albums of the last couple of years. Settle in and get ready for some smooth, sunny, reggae and dub influenced hip-hop. Welcome to. But I&...
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The Eternal Return of the Dark Past | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. The Eternal Return of the Dark Past. Neo-noir, its pitfalls and its triumphs in Rian Johnsons Brick. American cinema has been going to darker and darker places with the high school institution since the nineteen eighties tried to pass it off as a funland of pretty people and carefree antics. John Duigan’s. 1991) wanted to give the trope of high school romance the proper tragic angle of which Shakespeare found it so deserving. Todd Solondz’. Is hardly ...
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The Noir Protagonist With Reference to Neo-Noir and Gone Baby Gone (2007) | Wonderbread
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A collection of media review, criticism and analysis. The Noir Protagonist With Reference to Neo-Noir and Gone Baby Gone (2007). Traditionally, New York and Los Angeles have formed (and informed, with their distinctive architectural sensibilities) the environmental backbones for any number of films noir. Chicago, too, has had at least a little exposure in its time, on account of the masses of gangster lore directly associated with the Windy City. Boston, however? And directed by John Sturges. For all tha...
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