The Ecologies of Film Noir

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fay
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
American Film ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
Rental Property ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artificial World

Postwar American film noir explores an artificial world that does not foster human happiness and growth, but leads to a kind of human incapacity to act and respond. Beyond merely depicting these negative environments, noir lays bare the attachments to bad living and unsustainable striving that underwrite the accumulating culture of the Anthropocene at midcentury. Positioning itself as the genre that critiques postwar peaceful prosperity, noir gives us the characters, places, and scripts for human expiration as the counter to both nuclear survivalism and consumer capitalism. The hospitality of film noir is rental property. Indeed, impermanent dwelling of the individual and humanity as a whole is one of noir’s lessons for the Anthropocene. American noir is an ecological genre that teaches us in the spirit of Roy Scranton’s book how “to die in the Anthropocene.”

scholarly journals The Hybridization Of The Noir Genre As Expression Of Ethnic Heritage: Rafael Navarro’s Sonambulo

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-161
Author(s):  
Anna Marta Marini
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
American Film ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Film Genres ◽  
Fundamental Reference

In his ongoing comic book series Sonambulo, versatile artist Rafael Navarro has been able to channel his Mexican American cultural heritage by creating a unique blend of narrative genres. In his work, Navarro exploits classic American film noir as a fundamental reference and hybridizes it with elements distinctive to a shared Chicanx heritage, such as lucha libre cinema, horror folktales, and border-crossing metaphors; the construction of an oneiric dimension helps bring the narrative together, marking it with a peculiar ambiance. Drawing heavily on a diverse range of film genres, as well as ethnocultural pivots, this comic book series carves out a definite space in the panorama of the Mexican American production of popular culture, adding a powerful voice to the expression of US ethnic minorities.

Femme fatale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
American Film ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
French Version ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
French Film ◽  
French Culture ◽  
The City

The association of woman with Paris and death was a popular trope in nineteenth-century French culture and finds expression in cinematic representations of the Parisienne as femme fatale. This chapter considers la Parisienne as femme fatale in Jules Dassin’s Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève(1939) and Le quai des brumes(1938), and Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle (1960). These films can be considered examples of French film noir and their female protagonists read as femme fatales. However, the femme fatale of French film noir is different from the femme fatale of American film noir; she comes from a different cultural tradition and is informed by a different cultural figure. This chapter argues that the development of the femme fatale as a cinematicarchetype passed through a cultural tradition not usually associated with the noir genre: nineteenth-century French culture and the tradition of the filles d’Eve embodied in the type la Parisienne. The French version of this archetype grew out of the popular nineteenth-century trope of the association of woman with the city and death. Indeed, there is an aesthetic and narrative overdetermination of the femme fatale by the figure of la Parisienne, particularly through iconographical motifs associated with the type, like fashion, ambiguity, sexuality and danger

3. Censorship and politics in Hollywood noir

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-64
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
American Film ◽  
Production Code ◽  
Standard Report ◽  
The Impact

During the period when American film noir was at its zenith, Hollywood’s self-appointed censorship agency, the Production Code Administration (PCA), exercised control over the movie studios. The PCA’s standard report form of the 1940s was manifestly puritanical and ideological. ‘Censorship and politics in Hollywood noir’ explains the strategies used to get past the strict censorship rules and considers the impact of political censorship, especially the concern with communism, and the general culture’s treatment of women and minorities on Hollywood noir through the 1940s and 1950s, a period of time that saw probably the most regulated, censored, and morally scrutinized pictures of the kind in American history.

Users of Sharing Economy Platforms in Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Igor I. Saveliev ◽  
Marina Y. Sheresheva ◽  
Vera A. Rebiazina ◽  
Natalia A. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
Rental Housing ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Site Quality ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Rental Property ◽  
Platform Ecosystems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

The sharing economy phenomenon has become one of the main trends that influence customer behavior in many markets. The emergence of online service platforms allows individuals and businesses to share their unused or underutilized resources efficiently and expand the locus of value creation through platform ecosystems. The analysis shows that Russian users of the sharing economy platforms for the short-term rental housing find it necessary to have relevant price offers, diversity of hosting proposals, reasonable fees, the web-site quality including booking convenience, availability of feedback and reviews, quick application processing, and contact with the owners of rental property. Aside from the economic, social, and ecological factors mentioned above, the individual factors are proposed to be added to the analysis which will have a substantial impact on specifying target groups of Russian users of the sharing economy platforms.

The Symposium and Platonic Ethics: Plato, Vlastos, and a Misguided Debate

Phronesis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frisbee Sheffield
Keyword(s):  
Human Happiness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Do So

Abstract Scholarship on the Symposium is dominated by a debate on interpersonal love started by Gregory Vlastos in his article, ‘The Individual as an Object of Love in Plato.’ This paper argues that this debate is a misguided one, because it is not reflective of the central concerns of this text. Attention needs to be turned to the broader ethical questions posed about the ends of life, the nature of human happiness, and contemplation. Failure to do so will mean that the Symposium continues to be eclipsed as a key resource in central debates in Platonic ethics.

American Women Screenwriters in the 1920s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliana Muscio
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Film History ◽  
World Market ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
American Film ◽  
Social Force ◽  
American Women ◽  
Consumer Capitalism ◽  
American Film Industry ◽  
Classical Hollywood

This chapter contextualizes the work of American women scriptwriters within the gendered liberalization of an emerging consumer capitalism during the 1920s. More specifically, it examines the major role played by women writers in the American film industry of the period to the development of “classical Hollywood narrative,” both as a social force and a form of storytelling. It suggests that women screenwriters contributed to the maturation of narrative construction—from its origins to the introduction of sound, when Hollywood completed the conquest of the world market. In addition to significantly contributing to film history, American women screenwriters played a crucial role in modernizing society, not only through the stories they wrote but also through their very presence in Hollywood.

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