Przeglądaj Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 9/2019 według tytułu

Wyświetlanie pozycji 22-25 z 25

    • Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s "Black Money" 

      Zdunkiewicz, Lech (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
       In his early career, Kenneth Millar, better known as Ross Macdonald, emulated the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. By the 1960s he had established himself as a distinct voice in the hardboiled genre. In his ...

    • What Ever Happened to My Peace of Mind? Hag Horror as Narrative of Trauma 

      Fisiak, Tomasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      In his pioneering study of Grande Dame Guignol (also referred to as hag horror or psycho-biddy), a female-centric 1960s subgenre of horror film, Peter Shelley explains that the grande dame, a stock character in this form ...

    • A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s "The Songlines" Reconsidered 

      Nicholls, Christine (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      This article revisits, analyzes and critiques Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 bestseller, The Songlines, more than three decades after its publication. In Songlines, the book primarily responsible for his posthumous celebrity, Chatwin ...

    • “You’ll never meet someone like me again”: Patty Jenkins’s "Monster" as Rogue Cinema 

      Wise, Michelle D. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      Film is a powerful medium that can influence audience’s perceptions, values and ideals. As filmmaking evolved into a serious art form, it became a powerful tool for telling stories that require us to re-examine our ideology. ...