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Polar: The Black Kaiser

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506712584
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Polar: The Black Kaiser written by Victor Santos and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Netflix Movie with Mads Mikkelsen. A Cold War espionage agent with ice in his veins comes to the United States aiming to take out a political target, but the mission is never what it seems. The Black Kaiser, a name whispered in dark corners amongst power czars across the globe. A cold knife in the dark. A secret agent. Delve into the origin of the most feared assassin as his current mission lands him on American soil and in direct conflict with the nefarious agency known as the Damocles Initiative. New York Times Bestseller Victor Santos (Filthy Rich, Violent Love) takes you back to the beginning with the origin of his iconic character Black Kaiser! A violent and fast-paced thriller. Now a Major Motion Picture. Polar: The Origin of the Black Kaiser from Planeta-de-Agostini comics 2009

The Roman Noir in Post-war French Culture

Author : Claire Gorrara
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture
ISBN 13 : 9780199246090
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Noir in Post-war French Culture written by Claire Gorrara and published by Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the novelists studied were published initially in popular collections, such as the Serie noire, but they have been chosen for the innovation of their work and the exciting ways in which they resist tired conventions and offer new ways of representing social reality." "One of the first English-language studies of this popular genre, The Roman Noir in Post-War French Culture offers much more than close readings of these fascinating texts; it demonstrates the important contribution of the roman noir to the cultural histories of post-war France."--Jacket.

Classic French Noir

Author : Deborah Walker-Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786725185
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Classic French Noir written by Deborah Walker-Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the intense human passions underlying the cut-throat world of noir.

Visual Representations of the Arctic

Author : Markku Lehtimäki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000366375
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Visual Representations of the Arctic written by Markku Lehtimäki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region

The Mad and the Bad

Author : Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177207
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mad and the Bad written by Jean-Patrick Manchette and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Michel Hartog, a sometime architect, is a powerful businessman and famous philanthropist whose immense fortune has just grown that much greater following the death of his brother in an accident. Peter is his orphaned nephew—a spoiled brat. Julie is in an insane asylum. Thompson is a hired gunman with a serious ulcer. Michel hires Julie to look after Peter. And he hires Thompson to kill them. Julie and Peter escape. Thompson pursues. Bullets fly. Bodies accumulate. The craziness is just getting started. Like Jean-Patrick Manchette’s celebrated Fatale, The Mad and the Bad is a clear-eyed, cold-blooded, pitch-perfect work of creative destruction.

“Polar noir”: Reading African-American Detective Fiction

Author : Claude Julien (dir.). Alice Mills
Publisher : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
ISBN 13 : 2869065132
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book “Polar noir”: Reading African-American Detective Fiction written by Claude Julien (dir.). Alice Mills and published by Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.

Polar: The Black Kaiser

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506712517
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Polar: The Black Kaiser written by Victor Santos and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Netflix Movie with Mads Mikkelsen. A Cold War espionage agent with ice in his veins comes to the United States aiming to take out a political target, but the mission is never what it seems. The Black Kaiser, a name whispered in dark corners amongst power czars across the globe. A cold knife in the dark. A secret agent. Delve into the origin of the most feared assassin as his current mission lands him on American soil and in direct conflict with the nefarious agency known as the Damocles Initiative. New York Times Bestseller Victor Santos (Filthy Rich, Violent Love) takes you back to the beginning with the origin of his iconic character Black Kaiser! A violent and fast-paced thriller. Now a Major Motion Picture. Polar: The Origin of the Black Kaiser from Planeta-de-Agostini comics 2009

Polar Volume 1: Came from the Cold (Second Edition)

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506711189
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Polar Volume 1: Came from the Cold (Second Edition) written by Victor Santos and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of a Netflix Original Movie! Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world's most deadly spy--the former agent known as Black Kaiser--is a wanted man that's wanted . . . dead! On a collision course with his former employer, the Damocles Agency, Black Kaiser goes head to head with a stab-happy, psychotic torture expert and a seductive but deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him, and he's not in the habit of dying. A guns-blazing espionage action-adventure in the grand tradition of Jim Steranko and Frank Miller, this graphic novel by Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) is a brutal, fast-tempo story of revenge that Newsarama says is "as ice-cold as its name." Originally a silent webcomic, but Santos has crafted a script as hard boiled and intriguing as his art for this hardcover collection.

Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429769601
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir written by Robert A. Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series from Scandinavia and Finland, as well as the impact of such programmes on how northern Europe is viewed around the world. Drawing on a diverse set of literature, from screen studies to critical International Relations, Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir addresses the fraught geopolitical content of Nordic television series, as well as how Nordic noir as a genre travels the globe. With empirical chapters focusing on the interlinked concepts of the body, the border, and the nation-state, this book interrogates the various ways in which northern European states grapple with challenges wrought by globalisation, neoliberalism, and climate change. Reflecting the current global fascination with all things Nordic, this text examines the light and dark sides of the region as seen through the television screen, demonstrating that series such as Occupied, Trapped, and The Bridge have much to teach us about world politics. This book will be of interest to those interested in geopolitics, national identity, and the politics of popular culture in: Scandinavian studies, media/screen studies, IR/political science, human/cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and communication.

French and American Noir

Author : Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230244823
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book French and American Noir written by Alistair Rolls and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition. This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a Franco-French lineage.

The Noir Atlantic

Author : Pim Higginson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846316901
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The Noir Atlantic written by Pim Higginson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication in 1953 of his “Harlem Domestic” series, African American noir writer Chester Himes became a cult figure for a generation of Parisian readers—many of whom appreciated his work as much for the break it represented from the dominant colonial-era literary paradigm as for Himes's characteristic blend of violence and dark wit. The Noir Atlantic examines the crucial role played by Himes and others in the emergence of crime fiction across francophone Africa. Through careful textual analysis, Pim Higginson charts the emergence of African noir over the past two decades and redefines the key African and American authors in a broader global context.

Beyond Return

Author : Lucas Hollister
Publisher : Contemporary French and Franco
ISBN 13 : 1786942186
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Return written by Lucas Hollister and published by Contemporary French and Franco. This book was released on 2019 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Return, Lucas Hollister examines the political orientations of fictions which 'return' to forms that have often been considered sub-literary, regressive, outdated or decadent, and suggests new ways of reading contemporary adventure novels, radical noir novels, postmodernist mysteries, war novels and dystopian fictions.

Polar Volume 4: The Kaiser Falls

Author : Victor Santos
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506711170
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Polar Volume 4: The Kaiser Falls written by Victor Santos and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final installment in the Polar quadrilogy. Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) delivers an epic finale to his espionage action adventure! Part one is now a major motion picture! An indomitable, yet aging spy assimilates to retirement in Miami, until a rookie assassin locates him and challenges him to his crown. Living a simple life down in the Miami sunshine gets complicated when Black Kaiser's housemaid has some problems involving a local gang. However, resurfacing to maintain the peace, puts him right in the new adversary's crosshairs. Buckle up because Black Kaiser's last ride is going to get rough!

Finding the Plot

Author : Loïc Artiago
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865443
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Plot written by Loïc Artiago and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Plot”, writes Peter Brooks, “is so basic to our very experience of reading, and indeed to our articulation of experience in general, that criticism has often passed it over in silence…” (Reading for the Plot, xi). Finding the Plot both explores and helps to redress this critical neglect. The book brings together an international group of scholars to address the nature, effects and specific pleasures of consuming stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the book’s scope – like contemporary fiction itself – observes no national frontiers, and extends across a variety of media. The book addresses both the empirical question of which genres and types of text have been and are most “popular”, and the theoretical questions of how plots work, what pleasures they offer to readers, and why it matters that the plot should not be lost.

The Crossroads of Crime Writing

Author : Meghan P. Nolan
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839991186
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Crossroads of Crime Writing written by Meghan P. Nolan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage—of both time and place—is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.

May 68 in French Fiction and Film

Author : Margaret Atack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198715153
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book May 68 in French Fiction and Film written by Margaret Atack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uprising of May 1968, during which tanks rolled onto the streets of Paris, was a radically defining moment in French intellectual life. It signalled the rise of 'new wave' cinema and the arrival of the 'post structuralist' literary-philosophy of Derrida, Foucault, and others. This is the first book-length study of May '68 in French fiction and film.

Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture

Author : Helena Chadderton
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831201
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture written by Helena Chadderton and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world. Composed of eleven essays and a contextualising introduction, this volume is interdisciplinary in its treatment of engagement in a variety of forms, as it reassesses the relationship between different types of cultural production and society as it is played out in the twenty-first century. With a focus on both the development of different cultural forms (Part 1) and on the particular crises that have attracted the attention of cultural practitioners (Part 2), this volume maps and analyses some of the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are being used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.