Essays on Double Indemnity
James M. Cain’s masterpieces ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ (Postman) and ‘Double Indemnity’ (Indemnity) are built on the immensely passionate, yet considerably destructive love affairs that occur between the lost souls that Cain utilizes as his protagonists. Cain recognized his reader’s insatiable thirst for romance, and thus, he moved away from a typical noir structure...
Explore the potential subversion and challenging of gender norms in at least two films from the module. Are these films and character types repeating old patterns or are they breaking out of traditional frameworks? Precisely, how does this work in the films in question? After watching the two films I will discuss in this essay,...
Q -‘Film noir give[s] us one of the few periods of film in which women are active, not static symbols, are intelligent and powerful, if destructively so, and derive power, not weakness, from their sexuality’. (Janey Place, ‘Women in Film Noir’ in Women in Film Noir, ed. by Ann E. Kaplan (London: BFI, 1998), pp47-68...
German Expressionism / Film Noir I am going to show how the distinctive stylistic approaches in the movements of the early films I will express my opinion on German expressionism film widely known as “The cabinet of Dr. Caligari”(Robert Wiene 1920) and Film Noir “Double Indemnity”( Billy Wilder 1944) German Expressionism is a genre that...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is a 70’s classic that won five major Oscars. McMurphy prefers to go to a mental hospital to escape a prison sentence. He is a criminal with a history of violence and aggression who arrives at the hospital and changes the...