The expansive genre of film noir works to construct and deconstruct borders. Film noir both establishes and complicatesborders of identity within race, class, ethnicity, and gender. Neo-noir emulates the visual style of film noir as well as...

There are several subtle images in Walter Mosley's detective novel Devil In a Blue Dress that suggest the unusual ending. Throughout the novel, the main character, a black man named Easy Rawlins, sees people as either black or white. He is...

Traditional qualities of a feminine women usually include a beautiful physique, a gentle, nurturing nature, and a degree of sexual reservation. Throughout literature and film, women that embrace typical ideas of femininity are also portrayed as...