Unreading the spy thriller: the example of William F. Buckley, Jr

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Analysis of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s spy novels confirms that conceptual boundaries created between heroic-romantic spy thrillers and their more purposeful counterparts cannot explain the intricacy of popular narratives and obstruct interpretations of these intricacies in such as those of Buckley. Buckley's protagonist Blackford Oakes is trapped between organizational commitment and his ethical beliefs, between the vague requirements of real politic and his ideas of justice.

Spy stories, Buckley, William F., Jr.

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The William Brigman JPC Award Winner: John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance directed by John Ford is rooted in history in the attempt at verisimilitude of an Old West out of the director's imagination and thematically poised on the new frontier of the 1960s. It engages the citizens of the time in which it was created by invoking the ideological dynamics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through the semiotics of myth.

United States, Western films, Western movies, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Motion picture), Ford, John (American movie director)

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Cinematic Techniques in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress

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'A Harlot's Progress' is a series of six engravings by William Hogarth, produced between 1731 and 1732, which are seen as proto-cinematic devices. The work is a pictorial tale of Mary Hackabout, who travels to London from Yorkshire, UK, to look for a job, perhaps in sewing, but who becomes a prostitute. She spends time in prison, has a child, and dies of syphilis.

Analysis, Artists, Engraving, Hogarth, William (English painter)

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