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Author Archives: leoschiller4
Yes, yes, yes….
Sure, sure, sure…..How women character in Detective fiction changed, now she is not femme fatal only, but a detective as well. Hmmm…..Trying to understand the roots of it… Defiantly gender of a writer. We, men never can fully understand what really … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Not hard boiled at all…
Hmmmm……Honestly I did not really like that movie at all. It was something in between not funny comedy and chip blockbuster. All hardboiled moments disappeared. I had a strong feeling that they tried to make family movie or something. In the book, you see brains … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Brave New South.
In the chapter 8, Cotton comes to Harlem we see an example of headquarters of the movement Back to the Southland. They picture South as an ideal place for a black person to live and portray caricature relationships between white and black people that are … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Red bloody Harvest.
Maybe for me the picture of the corrupt and bloody Personville looks a little bit like a cliche, but I am pretty sure that for the late 1920th reader this book was more than just an old and bloody noire story. It … Continue reading → Continue reading
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About my old friend Ernest…
Did you ever read Oscar Wilde’s “The importance of being earnest”. If you were lucky enough to do it and moreover found it funny, My congratulations: you have an esstetical taste… Even so, today I want to discuss my other … Continue reading → Continue reading
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