Hero in the Shadows: Film Noir, Fairytale and Postmodernism in Drive

Gabrielle O'Brien explores the convergence of somewhat paradoxical influences in this slick postmodern neo-noir.

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Film as text, senior secondary, Nicolas Winding Refn, reflections, surfaces, nostalgia, violence, moral decay, Grimm, ethics, criminality, neo-noir, Jean Baudrillard, Rebecca, The Big Combo, pastiche, parody, Fredric Jameson, hero, villain, fetish, Cocktail, archetypes.