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What is realism? |
The identification of 19th century novel writing that describes human life and experiences. |
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What is hard-boiled fiction? |
A rough and gritty form of realist crime drama that focuses on violence and lurid scenes. |
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What is noir? |
A genre of detective or crime fiction that utilizes sleaziness, fatalism, cynicism, and moral ambiguity. |
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What is the aesthetic object? |
Economy; the force of totality; a single object that is given a focus. |
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What is opposition to the aesthetic object? |
Focusing on multiple things rather than one individual one. |
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What is Film Noir? |
Hollywood films of the 1940s-50s that portray the streets, crime, and corruption. |
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What is metonymy? |
The literal term of something that symbolizes something else. (IE: Using "the crown" for Queen Elizabeth) |
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What is a femme fatale? |
A woman who lures a character into danger or compromising situations using her wiles, charm, and beauty. |
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What is abstraction? |
The feeling of the world through an unnameable idea, but rather as a force. |
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What is representation? |
The world as told by identities and social institutions. |
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What is science fiction? |
A literary genre whose necessary and specific conditions are the presence and interactions of estrangement and cognition; the main formal device is an imagined framework alternative to the author's experienced world. |
