Film Noir, Bête Blanche: Blood on the Snow in Fargo
The horror in this film is not the noir violence that it brings to the bucolic Midwestern setting, but the inability of that violence to leave a mark – the[…]
Author: Erik Dussere
Erik Dussere teaches literature and film at American University in Washington, DC. He has done critical work on Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, film noir, detective fiction, and comic books, among other things. His novel The West House was published in 2020.
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The Sentence and the Shot: Revisiting Citizen Kane and Absalom, Absalom!
In both texts, these strategies suggest similar attempts to represent the present moment’s relationship to the American past. Faulkner’s devastating analysis of race and Welles’s meditations on wealth and worth[…]
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Weird American Odysseys: Music, Authenticity, and the Coen Brothers
“When somebody’s wearing a mask, he’s going to tell the truth. When he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” – Bob Dylan (while not wearing a mask), Rolling Thunder[…]
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