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American Noir: 11 Classic Crime Novels of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s (Library of America)
Posted by Notcot on Apr 30, 2012 in Noir
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s Vol 1 (Library of America)
Posted by Notcot on Feb 28, 2011 in Noir
Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir (Cinema and Society)
Posted by Notcot on Dec 26, 2010 in Noir
An account of how popular films in America, just after the close of the Second World War, played out America’s mood at that crucial time. This book is also a revisionist challenge to the scholarly understanding of this mood, has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period.
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Travel Adaptor Plug: Worldwide / European Visitor To Uk
Posted by Notcot on Aug 9, 2010 in Peripherals & Accessories
Product Description
For visitors from Europe, USA, Australia, China & Latin America
For use in: UK, Ireland, Singapore, India, South Africa & Hongkong in UK
- Converts most 2 and 3 pin foreign plugs to 3 pin
- For foreign travellers to UK
- Fused
- Can also be used in some other countries (see details)
- Adapter plugs allow travel appliances to fit into foreign outlets. They do not convert electricity / voltage.
Blue Velvet
Posted by Notcot on May 16, 2010 in Cult Film
Amazon.co.uk Review
David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle-class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper’s sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan’s illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper’s oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn’t for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. –Sean Axmaker
On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America
Posted by Notcot on Apr 24, 2010 in Noir
Donnie Darko
Posted by Notcot on Apr 22, 2010 in Cult Film
Amazon.co.uk Review
Donnie Darko is a thought-provoking, touching and distinctive offering from relative newcomer, Richard Kelly (II). It’s 1988 in small-town America and Donnie, a disturbed teenager on medication and undergoing psychoanalysis for his blackouts and personality disorders, is being visited by a being in a rabbit suit whom he calls Frank. It’s this anti-Harvey that saves Donnie from being crushed to death when an airplane engine falls from the sky onto his house. This is the beginning of their escalating relationship, which, as Donnie follows Frank’s instructions, becomes increasingly violent and destructive. Added to this is Frank’s warning of the impending apocalypse and Donnie’s realisation that he can manipulate time, leading to a startling denouement where nearly everything becomes clear.
“Nearly everything”, because Donnie Darko is a darkly comic, surreal journey in which themes of space, time and morality are interwoven with a classic coming-of-age story of a teenage boy’s struggle to understand the world around him. The film leaves the viewer with more questions than it answers, but then that’s part of its charm. Performances are superb: Jake Gyllenhaal underplays the mixed-up kid role superbly and Donnie’s episodes of angst positively erupt out of the screen. There are also some starry cameos from Mary McDonnell as Donnie’s long-suffering mother, Patrick Swayze as Jim Cunningham, the personal-development guru with a terrible secret, and Noah Wyle and Drew Barrymore as Donnie’s progressive teachers. Undoubtedly too abstruse for some tastes, Donnie Darko‘s balance of outstanding performances with intelligent dialogue and a highly inventive story will reward those looking for something more highbrow than the average teenage romp. –Kristen Bowditch
Black and White and Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism
Posted by Notcot on Apr 20, 2010 in Noir
Worldwide USB Travel Charger / Adaptor Plug – Works in 175 Countries
Posted by Notcot on Apr 6, 2010 in PCs & Laptops
Product Description
The World Travel Adapter offers 4 different pins and sockets covering a wide variety of global connecting needs. Plus it comes with a USB charger.
Compatibility
UK, Europe, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, America, Canada most Central American countries, certain parts of South America, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and parts of the Far East and Pacific Islands.
Approved Standards:
CE
RoHS
- Eliminate the need of bringing numerous chargers on your travels
- Compatible with electrical devices that requires a power source directly from an AC socket
- USB port can be used for charging any compatible device up to 1 amp output
- Can simultaneously be used through the sockets and USB
- Features a built-in safety fuse
Worldwide USB Travel Charger / Adaptor Plug – Works in 175 Countries
