Situating Elizabeth Bowen within a feminist literary history of experimentation with the conventions of popular genre fiction, this essay investigates the innovative generic hybridity of Bowen's WWII ...spy thriller, The Heat of the Day (1948). Through the imbrication of international espionage and a romance plotline, the novel demonstrates the intrusion of the wartime state into women's everyday lives and intimate relationships. Drawing connections between patriarchal oppression of women's sexual and political lives, Bowen maps the psychological struggle of the thriller onto the interpersonal conflicts of a love triangle, creating a romantic enigma her spy characters must solve. The result of the genre hybridity in Bowen's romance-thriller, I argue, is a rejection of the masculinized notions of patriotism associated with the spy thriller and endemic to the British political system at mid-century, and the reclamation of intimate spaces as sites of feminist political action and solidarity during times of war.
One of the unknowns associated with Alain Guiraudie's thriller L'Inconnu du lac/Stranger by the Lake (2013) is what the film is really about. Set at a lake where men have sex with men, the film ...follows the protagonist Franck, who pursues a relationship with a man despite witnessing that man drown his lover. Whereas some reviews have read the film as a fable about the dangers of casual sex or HIV, this article argues that a key theme is the question of 'knowability': how do we come to know, to read, to make connections? How the film itself connects to a wider viewing audience is a further question this article addresses. To do so, three aspects pertinent to its readability are considered. The first relates to genre: how the film breaks with the generic conventions of the homme fatal thriller. The second pertains to space, with Guiraudie's lakeside being compared to Jean-Didier Urbain's writing on the beach. The third concerns narrative, specifically the self-reflexive element of three 'reader' characters in the film. This article will contend that ultimately Guiraudie's film goes beyond communitarian questions to offer a post-queer vision of connectedness in a world of increasing isolation.
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The article presents the Trylogia Berlińska The Berlin Trilogy by Magdalena Parys, a Polish writer living in Berlin. The series consists of three thrillers (Tunel, 2011; Magik, 2014; Biała Rika, 2016 ...Tunnel, Magician, White Rika) which critics have described as „political thrillers”. In the multi-threaded plots, set both in the contemporary and historical realities (World War II and the immediate post-war period), Polish émigrés, rooted in the Berlin’s metropolitan area, without complexes and pursuing their professional goals play a special role. The Poles include representatives of the middle generation – Germans of Polish descent, policemen, photographers, journalists who investigate vicious and unsolved murder cases. The confrontation of characters of Polish descent with their German peers, whose parents and grandparents live with the trauma of expulsion or of being a victim of Stasi surveillance, makes the reader think about the memory and the problem of German-Polish relations in the 21st century.
Transformations in the perception of horror by modern readers have provoked an increased tolerance for cruelty and death. This increase challenges authors to use special means of emotional arousal in ...order to appeal to contemporary audiences. One of Stephen King’s most recent books,
(2019), is replete with such special means. The novel deals with unspeakable terror and centres on a group of psychic kids kidnapped and placed in brutal conditions to serve the dark purposes of powerful men. This article explores King’s ways of expressing horror by affecting universal human experiences, emotions, and feelings. It applies an interdisciplinary perspective based on psychological and hermeneutic approaches to argue that in the non-otherworldly and non-monster horror
, King involves a combination of vocabulary inventions, syntactic transformations, letter emphases, and refined literary devices to create a terrifying atmosphere. These means are explicated in the article to argue that the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms is, in many ways, more shocking and frightening than traditional bloody images. They help King remodel a dark realm of gripping horror, where fear arises primarily out of a sense of the distorted world order, and enable the writer to critique social institutions for their approval of horrendous harm.
The paper aims to clarify the biblical image-symbols in Frank Peretti’s mystical thrillers. The problem of the detailed analysis of the lingual representation of the biblical image-symbols and their ...pragmatic value is solved in the article by applying a complex of methods of linguistic poetics, cognitive linguistics, stylistics and methodological tools of discourse analysis. The paper considers the biblical images-symbols, used in American mystical thrillers written by the protestant author Frank Peretti, as biblical intertexts depicting not only biblical knowledge but also author’s intentions and beliefs in conveying the most profound ideas and principles of the literary texts. Executed in the written works by lexical means, biblical image-symbols become the heart of biblically-marked contexts, which are differentiated according to their addressee orientation into author`s and character`s biblically-marked contexts and their scope – into propositional, composite, and complex biblically-marked contexts. The lingual representation of the biblical image-symbols is differentiated according to their structure into one-component (anthroponyms, toponyms, artifact, animalistic, anthropomorphic) and multicomponent, (two-component, three-component and four-component). The type of semantic transposition in the meaning of the lingual representation and pragmatic value of the biblical image-symbols determined the distinguishing of metaphoric and metonymic linguistic classification of the biblical image-symbols. Metaphoric are classified according to their structure (onecomponent and multi-component), their stylistic characteristics (language and speech metaphoric linguistic representants of the biblical image-symbols), and their denotative meaning (anthropomorphic, naturalmorphic, zoomorphic, and phytomorphic). Metonymic are differentiated according to the kinds of the metonymic transference of meaning into four groups: metonymy of belonging, metonymy of place, metonymy of signs, and metonymy of phenomenon.
Tchetchene d'origine russe et ancien trafiquant d'armes repenti, Ivan Gouchenko est abattu a son domicile. Le meurtre de ce PDG d'une division turque de la societe Apobiotech Pharma, une transaction ...de 40 millions de dollars, des allegations de blanchiment de fonds et le vol d'un virus prennent une dimension internationale. Pour percer le mystre, Fisher, directeur des oprations canadiennes chez Neuro-Alpha, demande au docteur Derren d'accder la mmoire d'un homme : Jalel Al-Hariz, un des terroristes les plus recherchs. Une mission de routine pour un analyste aux renseignements criminels. Une mission des plus palpitantes pour un neurologue.Sauf que la belle-fille du trafiquant repenti se trouve au coeur de l'affaire. Et que l'ancienne flamme de Fisher est son tour accuse de fraude. Aprs Memoriam, on retrouve avec bonheur le tandem Fisher-Derren qui n'a de cesse de dnouer cet imbroglio de Kilis Montral, de la dtresse d'un camp de rfugis au laboratoire aseptis de Bio Pharma. Et cela, quitte dfricher les mmoires les plus violentes, quitte voler des souvenirs par effraction.
In the article, the author explores the history of creation and development of the media franchise which revolves around the life of a fictional extravagant and in his own way genius serial killer ...and cannibal, Hannibal Lecter. The author of the study attempts to systematize the movies and series of the Hannibal universe, with a particular focus on the Hannibal TV series (2013–2015). The focus specifically on a TV series is due to the fact that such works have become a significant form of popular culture. The popular images that are formed within the context of a TV series are based on topical and meaningful categories of culture. This makes contemporary TV series, such as Hannibal, an influential tool for forcing the viewer to reflect on important issues. In this way, TV series today are able to influence cultural dynamics. On the other hand, as the author of the article shows on the example of Hannibal, the material of such media products is also a promising source for researching the processes and transformations taking place in society and identifying topical problems and challenges. The present study aims to identify various aspects of the complex and controversial personality of Hannibal in the context of contemporary culture. To achieve this purpose, the author, on the one hand, compares the image of the main character with the real and fictional characters of popular culture, and on the other hand, analyses several key categories of culture, including power, art and others, which all together allows defining the features of Hannibal’s personality within the coordinate system of culture.
Dans cet entretien du 30 décembre 2021 avec la chercheuse Nelly Rajaonarivelo, le cinéaste dominicain Andrés Farías Cintrón commente l’évolution du cinéma dominicain de cette dernière décennie et la ...place qu’il y occupe. Il expose sa vision du monde caribéen comme archipel connecté, de ses villes et de son climat qui conditionne le quotidien. Il commente ses deux récentes œuvres filmiques, le court-métrage Tiznao (2015) et le long-métrage Candela (2021), adaptés des romans policiers de Rey Andújar, dans lesquelles transparaît cette perception transcaribéenne, et revient sur l’écriture des scénarios, la construction des personnages ainsi que sur la signification des nombreux choix esthétiques opérés pendant le tournage et le montage.
Singularity and the Open-Ended Crisis Gyuris, Norbert
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The study aims at investigating the phenomenon of crisis in the intersection of three areas: simulation, singularity and temporality. The argument develops a theory of the singular crisis whose ...instances are demonstrated and proved by the American thriller,
(2011, Jeff Nichols). The applied concept of crisis is based on the argument that any critical period is treated by models derived from earlier crises. The theoretical background to the simulated operating mechanisms of the crisis is Jean Baudrillard’s and Gilles Deleuze’s appropriations of simulation and simulacra. In case the simulated problem-solving patterns fail in a critical period, the singular characteristics of the crisis can be observed. Based on examples taken from the film, the article argues that reaction to any given crisis is essentially built up by both hyperreal patterns governed by simulation and singular elements that simulation cannot account for. The description of the temporal nature of crises is heavily dependent on interpretation, thus their temporal span is observed from the vantage point of their singular characteristics. The study argues that crises are characteristically open-ended but their endpoint is predominantly designated in hindsight to render the crisis as a finished time period for the sake of manageability.
Political-spy thrillers question the notion of individual agency when confronted with organizational-systemic powers. From an aesthetic perspective, these narratives resort to the mythic iconography ...of the labyrinth and the Kafkaesque image of the castle. Through this perspective, the article examines the post-9/11 serial narratives Rubicon, Person of Interest, and Homeland.
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