Crime fiction: film noir and gender

Potboilers ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 151-161
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
And Gender

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoke ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Back Projection ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Pulp Fiction ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Female Detective ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle. But a new generation of writers is pushing aside the fog of cigarette smoke surrounding classic noir scholarship. This book is a bold collection of essays that reassesses the genre's iconic style, history, and themes. Chapters analyze the oft-overlooked female detective and little-examined aspects of filmmaking like love songs and radio aesthetics, discuss the significance of the producer and women's pulp fiction, as well as investigate Disney noir and the Fifties heist film, B-movie back projection and blacklisted British directors. At the same time the writers' collective reconsideration unwinds the impact of hot-button topics like race and gender, history and sexuality, technology and transnationality.

scholarly journals An interview with Helen Jacey

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Louise Sawtell ◽  
Stayci Taylor ◽  
Helen Jacey
Keyword(s):  
Genre Theory ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
European Production

Dr Helen Jacey is a screenwriter and script consultant, and teaches scriptwriting at Bournemouth University, UK. Her research interests include creative and critical approaches to screenwriting, screenwriting and gender, and screenwriting genre theory. Her book The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters (2010) was the first screenwriting guide for writers developing female driven projects. As a professional writer, she has written numerous film, television and radio projects for UK, US and European production companies and is currently developing a series of crime fiction novels, Elvira Slate Investigations. She is a story consultant for international filmmakers and film agencies.Editors Louise Sawtell and Dr Stayci Taylor asked Dr Jacey a series of questions relating specifically to the themes explored by the special issue: gendered practices, processes and perspectives in screenwriting. The following are the insights generously offered by this leader in the field.

Ingvar Ambjørnsens hytte-noir

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Rees
Keyword(s):  
Recent Trend ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Late Modern

Abstract This article considers links between contemporary Norwegian writer Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s novel Natten drømmer om dagen (2012; The night dreams of the day) and the concept of noir, both in relation to more traditional film noir, to classic hard-boiled crime fiction, and to the recent trend in crime fiction and television known popularly as “Nordic noir”. The author argues that Ambjørnsen reworks key elements of noir aesthetics and thematics, for example relocating the setting from the more typical “urban jungle” to an equally dark and brooding forest landscape. Ambjørnsen simultaneously activates and dismantles tropes associated with both Norwegian identity (nature, the vacation cabin) and with noir (the anti-hero, the femme fatale) to create a complex social critique of late modern Norwegian society.

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