Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives Sermons

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives SermonsExplores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films. Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives examines the detective figure in four noir and neo noir films: Out of the Past (1947), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Chinatown (1974). Exploring the way that these characters each move from an initial state of reluctant passivity to one of passionate engagement with the world around them, it questions the cinematic forces

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Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association

with a strong concentration of work by political scientists

the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas-the Arctic

Browning examines what makes a written or visual text successful at evoking fear on a case-by-case basis

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can a multicultural democratic country produce a multi-cultural democratic foreign policy

This book offers a number of innovative studies on the three main communities of the East Mediterranean lands—Muslims

A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes presents the first English translation of the sDom gsum rab dbye

heart and mind to the wonders of the supernatural

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