scholarly journals L’univers imaginaire de H. P. Lovecraft au prisme du cinéma d’animation

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Menegaldo
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
History Of

Cet article examine un corpus de films d’animation et présente divers modes d’adaptation et de réécriture. Dans ces variations sur des motifs lovecraftiens, l’hybridation générique est fréquente associant fantasy, horreur et film noir comme dans History of the Necronomicon (Hideke Takayama, 1987). La dimension intertextuelle est marquée ainsi que les déclinaisons parodiques. Les techniques d’animation sont variées : marionnettes en argile, pâte à modeler, crayonnages, pastel, numérique. The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (Ryo Shinagawa, 2008) exploite un procédé nouveau, le « ga-nimé », une forme d’animation lente en 3-D utilisant des matériaux mixtes et reposant sur des plans fixes. Dans The Night Ocean (Maria Lorenzo Hernandez, 2015), le récit subjectif et potentiellement non fiable de Lovecraft et Barlow est transposé sous la forme du carnet de voyage d’un artiste peintre mélancolique dont les oeuvres sont animées par une grande variété de procédés visuels et sonores, avec une partition musicale envoûtante. Ces deux films permettent de montrer que le cinéma d’animation se prête à la mise en images et en sons d’un imaginaire qui souvent résiste à la transposition à l’écran.

Debates about the generic ontology of film noir

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Varmazi ◽  
Funda Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Genres

This viewpoint discusses the various definitions given to classic film noir in order to show how the concept of film noir is difficult to demarcate as a genre, remaining a debatable subject among theoreticians. On a broader level, it might be argued that these discussions are linked with the intertextuality, the dynamism and the hybridity of film genres. One can also argue that film noir stands as one of the preliminary examples of such hybridity in the history of Western narrative cinema. Such a debate is also connected to film noir’s deviance from Hollywood conventions. While inhabiting elements from these conventions, classic noir has been affected by European film movements whilst influencing them. Noir holds a critical position to the social conditions of its era, defined usually from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. It also produces generic stereotypical characters such as the ‘hardboiled’ detective and the femme fatale that are both embraced and highly criticized by film theoreticians. However, film noir is an ambivalent concept, a category of films that can be sensed, yet resists delimitation within strict boundaries.

The Woman on Pier 13

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gangster Film

Part one of this chapter examines the production history of The Woman on Pier 13 to highlight the ideological mutability of the film’s ostensible, “right-wing” agenda, one endorsed by RKO’s head of production at the time, Howard Hughes. Part two aims to counter the claim that the anticommunist noir is without aesthetic interest by proffering a close textual analysis of a number of noir sequences in The Woman on Pier 13. Part three argues that--as the film’s original title, I Married a Communist, indexes--the political discourse of anticommunism cannot be divorced from questions about genre (melodrama, film noir, gangster film) and from contemporary socio-cultural notions about marriage, notions which receive their most charged expression in the picture’s figuration of gender and sexuality, in particular femininity (the femme fatale), masculinity (the “bad boy”), and homosexuality (the queer “Commie”). Part four revisits the issue of form—here, mise-en-scène--by exploring issues of labor and union subversion via the role of the cargo-hook and Diego Rivera’s painting, The Flower Carrier (1935), in the film.

The Crimson Kimono

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Interracial Romance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
American Police

Samuel Fuller’s Crimson Kimono (1959) is, like Odds against Tomorrow (1959), a paradigmatic late ‘50s American noir. Part policier, part melodrama, part “art” film, part “B” or exploitation picture, The Crimson Kimono deploys the sort of self-reflexive devices associated with Douglas Sirk’s ‘50s melodramas in order to “estrange” or “alienate” the dark crime film. For example, by portraying an interracial romance and commenting on the cliché of Oriental inscrutability, The Crimson Kimono foregrounds the black-and-white moral calculus of melodrama even as italicizes the racial difference, not to say racism, that has been a part, however occluded, of the history of “black film.” Equally importantly, by refiguring the film’s Asian-American police detective as the “hero” of the narrative who solves the case and “gets the girl,” Fuller’s film refashions one of the constitutive tropes of the genre, the “Shanghai gesture,” a trope that can itself be traced back to The Maltese Falcon (1941) and the origins of classic American film noir.

New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Chester Himes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Golden Apples ◽  
Haunted Houses

Responding to work begun in the 2013 collection Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race that mined and deciphered the complexity of her responses to the Jim Crow South, the thirteen diverse voices of New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race deepen, reflect on, and respond to those seminal discussions. These essays freshly consider such topics as Welty’s treatment of African-American signifying in her short stories, and her attention to public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her unpublished photographs. They consider her strategic adaptations of Gothic plots, black pastoral, civil war stories, haunted houses, and film noir. They frame Welty’s work with such subjects as Bob Dylan’s songwriting, the idea and history of the orphan in American, and standup comedy. They compare her handling of whiteness and race to that of other contemporary authors such as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, and Alice Walker. Additionally, several discussions bring her master-work The Golden Apples and her novel Losing Battles, under-represented in the earlier conversation, into new focus. The collection as a whole will help us to understand more clearly Welty’s artistic commentary on her time and place as well as the way her vision developed in a timespan moving America towards increased social awareness. Moreover, as a group, these essays provide insight into Welty as an innovative craftswoman and modernist technician, successfully altering literary form with her frequent pointed makeovers of familiar story patterns, plots, and genres. Together they show her as a remarkable writer idiosyncratically engaging and confidently altering literary history.

American Film Noir: The History of an Idea

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
American Film ◽  
History Of

American Film Noir: The History of an Idea

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Naremore
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
American Film ◽  
History Of

Remapping the Crime Novel in the Francophone Caribbean: The Case of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 1431-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Knepper
Keyword(s):  
Police Officer ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Private Investigator ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Point Of Departure

Shaped by a history of mobilities, displacements, and creolizing processes, the Caribbean is a significant testing ground for theories concerning the circulation and remapping of genre. Taking Patrick Chamoiseau's theory of generic wandering as my point of departure, I argue that his Solibo Magnifique exemplifies the principle of generic creolization. This is evident in the novel's intermixing of the detective novel, film noir, the spaghetti western, the comic book, the hard-boiled crime novel, and creole storytelling techniques. By manipulating the conventions by which the classical detective, the hard-boiled police officer, and the private investigator are characterized, Chamoiseau's narrative turns from an investigation into one man's death to an interrogation of Martinique, its history and the workings of its neocolonial psyche. Through the example of Solibo Magnifique and its radiating influence on other postcolonial crime writers, I conclude that this principle of creative creolization is increasingly relevant to understanding a world in which genre's radiating and rhizomic web of mobilities involves local and global confluences.

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