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In this thesis I investigate the nature of noir subjectivity, and the degree to which it can be described as heroic. To investigate these issues, I have chosen to illustrate my argument by analysing my novel, Viper, and two films that renew the noir cycle at different socio-political crossroads in America: in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock???s late noir, Vertigo, and in 1974, Frances Ford Coppola???s neo-noir, The Conversation. Because these texts present an extreme theorisation of deception in terms of the assembling and erasure of subjective identity, they will serve as a basis to explore the question of noir subjectivity. In proceeding thus, I argue in the dissertation that film noir???s most innovative borrowing can be described as a monstrous stitching together of incompatible parts???the real and the imaginary, the past and the present, the living and the dead???which accounts for a cut both between, and within, the image. It is this prosthetic approach to representation that takes the noir mode beyond its existential, individualist limits, and accounts for the subjective wound in noir: the heroic conflict between the singular and the multiple. In my analytic procedure then, I extend the idea of monstrosity beyond its current boundaries in contemporary theory. I do this by fusing Marie H??l??ne Huet???s conception of the monstrous imagination, which is a theory of art, with Gilles Deleuze???s powers of the false, which belongs to a philosophy of time. I posit a dialogic exchange across these analyses and my novel to suggest that the cinematic cut not only accounts for what Deleuze has termed the time-image but also is symptomatic of the chronic wounding of the riven noir hero. These analyses suggest that, while sustaining the aura of authorship through technical innovation and stylistic mastery, film noir serves paradoxically to challenge the mastery of the model designated as masculine. In my novel I continue to deal with the issues raised in the dissertation, through a rearticulation of a subjectivity that irrevocably alters its relation to representation in its affinity with the image, its serial movement through interstitial space, and its novel powers of falsification.

In this thesis I investigate the nature of noir subjectivity, and the degree to which it can be described as heroic. To investigate these issues, I have chosen to illustrate my argument by analysing my novel, Viper, and two films that renew the noir cycle at different socio-political crossroads in America: in 1958, Alfred Hitchcock???s late noir, Vertigo, and in 1974, Frances Ford Coppola???s neo-noir, The Conversation. Because these texts present an extreme theorisation of deception in terms of the assembling and erasure of subjective identity, they will serve as a basis to explore the question of noir subjectivity. In proceeding thus, I argue in the dissertation that film noir???s most innovative borrowing can be described as a monstrous stitching together of incompatible parts???the real and the imaginary, the past and the present, the living and the dead???which accounts for a cut both between, and within, the image. It is this prosthetic approach to representation that takes the noir mode beyond its existential, individualist limits, and accounts for the subjective wound in noir: the heroic conflict between the singular and the multiple. In my analytic procedure then, I extend the idea of monstrosity beyond its current boundaries in contemporary theory. I do this by fusing Marie H??l??ne Huet???s conception of the monstrous imagination, which is a theory of art, with Gilles Deleuze???s powers of the false, which belongs to a philosophy of time. I posit a dialogic exchange across these analyses and my novel to suggest that the cinematic cut not only accounts for what Deleuze has termed the time-image but also is symptomatic of the chronic wounding of the riven noir hero. These analyses suggest that, while sustaining the aura of authorship through technical innovation and stylistic mastery, film noir serves paradoxically to challenge the mastery of the model designated as masculine. In my novel I continue to deal with the issues raised in the dissertation, through a rearticulation of a subjectivity that irrevocably alters its relation to representation in its affinity with the image, its serial movement through interstitial space, and its novel powers of falsification.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:23:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6284.pdf: 4033248 bytes, checksum: 9d5efb0e9ae354a70477b6f64d8c9377 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The objective of this dissertation is to study the narrative of the trailer of one of the most influential films in cinema history: Alfred Hitchcock´s Psycho (1960). The trailer will, therefore, be analyzed not only as a tool of movie marketing, but mostly as a 'shortmovie' which has a kind of parallel narrative and assist in the feature film, with a beginning, middle and end, trying to understand how that is constituted and how it still speaks to the disclosure´s posters and the opening credits of the film. Both 'core' sequence storyboard´s (trailer and movie) will also be used in this reading that seeks to comprehend the process of signification in the orbit of Psycho. / O objetivo desta dissertação é estudar a narrativa do trailer de um dos mais influentes filmes da história do cinema: Psicose (1960), de Alfred Hitchcock. O trailer será, portanto, analisado não apenas como uma ferramenta de marketing cinematográfico, mas principalmente como um 'curta' que conta com uma espécie de narrativa paralela e auxiliar à do longa-metragem, com início, meio e fim, tentando compreender como aquela se constitui e de que forma dialoga ainda com os cartazes de divulgação e com os créditos iniciais do filme. O storyboard da sequência 'central' de ambos (trailer e filme) também será utilizado nesta leitura que visa compreender o processo de significação na órbita de Psicose.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2017. / Submitted by Raquel Almeida (raquel.df13@gmail.com) on 2018-04-09T18:44:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DanielLukanSchimithSilva.pdf: 1788519 bytes, checksum: 8f4472fbd46866d98610ec9a2fd1f3fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana (raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2018-04-17T21:21:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DanielLukanSchimithSilva.pdf: 1788519 bytes, checksum: 8f4472fbd46866d98610ec9a2fd1f3fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-17T21:21:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_DanielLukanSchimithSilva.pdf: 1788519 bytes, checksum: 8f4472fbd46866d98610ec9a2fd1f3fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). / Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo principal investigar a composição do suspense narrativo – suas origens e implicações – a partir da análise das obras de Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton e Alfred Hitchcock. Tendo como base o levantamento feito na obra de dois grandes nomes da crime-fiction literária e uma análise na obra cinematográfica do ‘mestre do suspense’, definiu-se os contos The Black Cat, de Poe, e The Honour of Israel Gow, de Chesterton, além do filme The Lodger, de Hitchcock, como modelos de narrativas paradigmáticas no conjunto das obras de cada um dos artistas em questão. Desse modo, com base nas análises narrativas e no aporte teórico acerca do suspense, colocar-se-á o embate entre culpa e inocência como elemento comum às narrativas dos três autores; bem como será discutida a hipótese de que, a partir da convergência entre elementos peculiares à obra de Poe e os particulares à obra de Chesterton, Hitchcock conseguiu criar um suspense moral bastante característico ao seu estilo de crime-fiction cinematográfico. Ou seja, como base numa simples ligação inicial – a crime-fiction – essa pesquisa pretende levantar o máximo de informações e conexões nos contos e no filme em análise a fim de compreender o suspense e o medo originados no conflito entre culpa e inocência, tanto na literatura quanto no cinema. / This research has as main objective investigating the composition of suspense narratives – their origins and implications – from the analysis of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton and Alfred Hitchcock. On the basis of the survey on the works of two great names in literary crime-fiction and the examination on the filmography of ‘the master of suspense’: Poe’s Black Cat, Chesterton’s The Honor of Israel Gow and Hitchcock's The Lodger are defined as models of paradigmatic narratives in the oeuvres of each artist in question. Thus, based on the narrative analysis and the theoretical support about suspense, the contrast between blame and innocence will be assigned as a common element to the narratives of the three authors; as well as it will be discussed the hypothesis that Hitchcock created a moral suspense, quite characteristic to his cinema style of crime-fiction, from the convergence between peculiar elements of Poe’s work and odd elements of Chesterton’s work. In other words, based on a simple initial connection – the crime-fiction – this research intends to collect the maximum information on the stories under analysis in order to comprehend the suspense and the fear originated in the conflict between guilt and innocence, in both arts (cinema and literature).

L’intertextualité filmique de l’oeuvre des frères Coen permet un recyclage des formules génériques et stylistiques qui font partie des traditions du cinéma. Les frères Coen empruntent des techniques et des thèmes tant au cinéma de l’époque des studios qu’à des écrivains du XXe siècle comme Raymond Chandler ou James Joyce. Une étude narratologique des procédes des frères Coen apportera une appréciation de leursinnovations dans la mise en scène. Leurs réécritures des schémas du passé donnent à ces films des ancrages dans la contemporanéité. Cette esthétique de réécriture sera analysée dans le contexte de l’histoire des idées et dans le contexte de la civilisation américaine contemporaine. Une mise en rapport avec des metteurs en scène de l’histoire du cinéma, comme Fritz Lang et Alfred Hitchcock, permettra d’évaluer les effets de leurs films sur le spectateur. / Film intertextuality in the Coen brothers’ films allows generic formulas and styles to be reformulated, in a reworking of cinema traditions. The Coen brothers borrow techniques and themes from the era of the Hollywood studio system as well as those of writers of the twentieth century like Raymond Chandler or James Joyce. A study of thenarratology of the Coen brothers’ oeuvre allows readers to appreciate their innovations in film direction. Their rewriting of schemas of the past is analyzed in the context of the history of ideas and of contemporary American civilization. In comparing their work to that of other directors in the history of cinema, such as Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock,the effects of intertextuality on the spectator will be evaluated.