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America's embrace of film noir came swift and furiously, the popularity of noir exists even in contemporary cinema. I would like to explore the implications as to why film noir has become one of the truest forms of American Cinema, perhaps even exceeding the western, as well as the reasoning as to why the American people have exalted a type of genre which is known primarily for its ties with human vice and depravity. In this investigation of the populations intrigue with noir I will address instances in select noir films that illustrate specific moments of the philosophical frame works of Michel Foucault. Through the application of these frameworks of thought I believe evidence can be found linking Film noir to primal human urges and desires that were initially discussed within the writings of these two philosophers. Throughout the evolution of cinema over the last 70 years, America has seen an abundance of reconditioned plots and outlines of classically structured stories. Film noir does not escape this refurbishment. With the collapse of the original Hollywood studio system as well as the infamous black list era, the ideology of Film making in America shifted enormously. This shift allowed cinema to reach into the postmodernist conditioning that had already been applied to literature and stage craft. The shift into postmodernism allowed for extraordinarily interesting developments in the genre of Film noir. Perhaps the most noted of these developments was that noir was no longer just a genre; it had become an actual ideology for telling a cinematic story. This is exemplified with the emergence of noir sensibilities throughout multiple contrasting film genres. This is illustrated throughout the arrival of such categories as the Science Fiction Noir, and most recently the genre of Neo-Noir. Neo-Noir is also home to the films that have attempted to satirize or parody the initial sensibilities of the original classic noir genre. The exploration of these new evolutions of noir constructed genres is of vast importance of understanding America's embrace of Film noir as a whole.

Where is the importance in uncovering a link between the economic position and level of familial dysfunction in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald? Furthermore, in composing these findings, what does this information have to offer in terms of bringing different insights to the works of these two writers who have already received so much attention from critics? In reading and researching the short stories of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, I find that published criticism has not sufficiently examined the connection between economic position and familial dysfunction. Trying to understand the psychology behind the characters’ lives and their consequential actions, however, requires us to look at this connection. One can articulate the effects and results that economic circumstances have in relation to the characters’ familial duties and responsibilities. / Thesis / Master

<p>The essay intends to problematize the notion of heroism in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game by contemplating the hero himself as well as his enemies. Particular focus will be placed on the good and evil dichotomy, arguing that it is essential to the heroic tale since the hero is supposed to fight evil and foster good. Seeing that Ender is also a murderer, the matter debated will be that he both is and is not a hero.</p>

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The essay intends to problematize the notion of heroism in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game by contemplating the hero himself as well as his enemies. Particular focus will be placed on the good and evil dichotomy, arguing that it is essential to the heroic tale since the hero is supposed to fight evil and foster good. Seeing that Ender is also a murderer, the matter debated will be that he both is and is not a hero.

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L'examen de l'histoire de l'art du XXe siècle permet de constater que le mobilier y occupe une place de second ordre dans la hiérarchie des valeurs esthétiques. Issu de la tradition artisanale et ensuite associé au domaine du design, le mobilier comme proposition esthétique partage avec l'un ou l'autre de ces champs une fin utilitaire et remet ainsi en cause les limites de ceux-ci. Or, c'est ce métissage, cette ambiguïté relative dont est porteur le mobilier comme proposition esthétique qui est à l'origine de sa marginalisation, voire de son exclusion du champ de l'art puisqu'il bouleverse la nature et la définition même de l'art. C'est donc à ce bouleversement que nous nous intéresserons dans le cadre de ce mémoire avec l'objectif d'identifier et de définir les spécificités du mobilier comme proposition esthétique. Afin de rencontrer notre objectif, nous avons d'abord brièvement défini la notion de mobilier comme proposition esthétique et l'avons ensuite distinguée des autres propositions (le mobilier d'art, la sculpture mobilière et le mobilier d'artiste) avec lesquelles elle est parfois confondue. Nous avons cherché à démontrer l'existence de cette pratique qui traverse l'histoire de l'art du XXe siècle pour ensuite mettre en évidence les allusions et emprunts qu'elle réalise aux domaines de l'art, de l'artisanat, de l'architecture et du design, ce qui nous a permis d'établir le mobilier comme proposition esthétique en tant que pratique interdisciplinaire. Les caractéristiques et enjeux appartenant en propre à cette discipline ont finalement été exposés puis vérifiés et appuyés par l'analyse de la production de deux artistes et celle de deux de leurs oeuvres: lnlaid table (« Mother of Pearl table ») et Steel Furniture de Scott Burton et Guadalajara et Delegates Dining Room de Jorge Pardo. L'approche méthodologique fondée sur l'histoire et l'esthétique que nous avons privilégiée, mais aussi la pluralité des discours que nous avons sollicitée, nous ont ici permis d'amorcer notre réflexion sur les conditions de l'existence du mobilier comme proposition esthétique, à partir des concepts de mobilier, d'interdisciplinarité, d'oeuvre d'art totale et celui d'oeuvre totale, pour enfin l'établir en tant que pratique interdisciplinaire actualisant l'aspiration de l'avant-garde artistique du début du XXe siècle à faire se joindre l'art et la vie. L'étude de cas a, pour sa part, mis en évidence les caractéristiques matérielles et formelles du mobilier comme proposition esthétique. Elle a aussi révélé que c'est sous le mode de présentation plutôt que celui de la représentation qu'est proposé l'objet, que la fonction d'usage affichée par ce type de proposition et la participation active du visiteur qu'il suscite en sont les principaux attributs. Elle a enfin confirmé que les fonctions esthétique et d'usage peuvent coexister au sein d'une seule et même oeuvre d'art. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Scott Burton, Jorge Pardo, Mobilier comme proposition esthétique, Meuble d'art, Mobilier d'artiste, Mobilier sculptural, Sculpture, Installation.

The paintings in Based on a True Story are at once illogical and concrete – implying both failure and the hope of figurative and architectural construction. Developed as a kind of psychological landscape, they suggest a depiction of contemporary societal / political, and environmental instability. Neither true nor false: the paintings are spaces in which one may become dislocated, anxious, and unsettled. Inclusion of architectural fenestration suggests one’s fractured location and continually shifting ground. Furthermore, literary and cinematic fiction plays an important role to the work in that they both suggest landscapes that may never exist literally. Fiction is also indicative of the close relationship between the utopia and dystopia as environments for escape. This sense of balance or lack thereof, becomes important to the development of the theatrically absurd, so that an audience may be implicated as the tragic and comic active participant. While investigating the work of Peter Doig, Stephen Bush, and Dana Schutz, for example, I suggest that the trail of the painter’s hand becomes a necessary mode of entrance into the work, offering a closer relationship to the act of painting as another form of escape. This gestural mark-making runs counter to current pushes toward technology, and suggests the re-emergence of painting as a primary approach in which to investigate the development of personal space and experience.

The paintings in Based on a True Story are at once illogical and concrete – implying both failure and the hope of figurative and architectural construction. Developed as a kind of psychological landscape, they suggest a depiction of contemporary societal / political, and environmental instability. Neither true nor false: the paintings are spaces in which one may become dislocated, anxious, and unsettled. Inclusion of architectural fenestration suggests one’s fractured location and continually shifting ground. Furthermore, literary and cinematic fiction plays an important role to the work in that they both suggest landscapes that may never exist literally. Fiction is also indicative of the close relationship between the utopia and dystopia as environments for escape. This sense of balance or lack thereof, becomes important to the development of the theatrically absurd, so that an audience may be implicated as the tragic and comic active participant. While investigating the work of Peter Doig, Stephen Bush, and Dana Schutz, for example, I suggest that the trail of the painter’s hand becomes a necessary mode of entrance into the work, offering a closer relationship to the act of painting as another form of escape. This gestural mark-making runs counter to current pushes toward technology, and suggests the re-emergence of painting as a primary approach in which to investigate the development of personal space and experience.