Chapter Four. The Blue Gardenia, Club Pigalle, and Daniel’s: Charting the Alienation Effect in Film Noir

2017 ◽  
pp. 49-60
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir ◽  
Alienation Effect

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.”

Silhouettes analysis: a posthuman method for visualizing and examining the material world

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412199901
Author(s):  
Grit Höppner
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Material World ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alienation Effect ◽  
Classical Image ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Image Details

In recent decades, postmodern, poststructuralist, and social constructivist theories, and the methodologies and methods they have informed, have been criticized for focusing primarily on human actors, discourses, and actions. Simultaneously, so-called posthuman theories have been developed that decentralize the human, reject an unquestioned use of the dualism of human/nonhuman, and emphasize the importance of the material world in the production of the social. A key concern for current qualitative inquiry is to develop methods that contribute to the critique of human-centered analysis. In this article, I explore what we learn about the material world when we do not use verbal methods or written data but image details of moveable formations, which are made into silhouettes using Karen Barad’s agential realism. After introducing posthuman methodology I perform a silhouettes analysis focusing on old age. The intention is to demonstrate that silhouettes analysis makes it possible to gain new insights into the features of materialities of old age in a way that classical image analysis would not allow. In addition, silhouettes analysis produces an alienation effect that disturbs practiced viewing habits and assumptions, and can thus serve as a research tool promoting reflection. I conclude with a discussion of the advantages and limitations of silhouettes analysis for gerontological and posthuman research.

Le Film noir français face aux bouleversements de la France d'après-guerre, 1946–1960

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 571.1-572
Author(s):  
Keith Reader
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir

Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
David Caldwell ◽  
Jans B. Wager
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir

Creatures of Darkness: Raymond Chandler, Detective Fiction, and Film Noir

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
A. Mary Murphy ◽  
Gene D. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Raymond Chandler

Doing Text

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Bennett ◽  
Julian McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Critical Space ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Romantic Poetry ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Media Formats

This volume re-imagines the study of English and media in a way that decentralises the text (e.g. romantic poetry or film noir) or media formats/platforms (e.g. broadcast media/new media). Instead, the authors work across boundaries in meaningful thematic contexts that reflect the ways in which people engage with reading, watching, making, and listening in their textual lives. In so doing, the volume recasts both subjects as combined in a more reflexive, critical space for the study of our everyday social and cultural interactions. Across the chapters, the authors present applicable learning and teaching strategies that weave together art works, films, social practices, creativity, 'viral' media, theater, TV, social media, videogames, and literature. The culmination of this range of strategies is a reclaimed 'blue skies' approach to progressive textual education, free from constraining shackles of outdated ideas about textual categories and value that have hitherto alienated generations of students and both English and media from themselves.

European Film Noir

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-570
Author(s):  
Ron Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Film Noir
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