Very often, a film noir story was developed around a cynical, hard-hearted, disillusioned male protagonist who encountered a beautiful and seductive, but immoral, femme fatale. ... Additionally, he becomes ensnared in the sex appeal of the femme fatale that is Phyllis Dietrichson. ... Her sex appeal is too much for him to resist, which she uses to her advantage, and he ends up committing a murder for her, putting him into a situation of paranoia and fear of being caught by his boss and friend Barton Keyes, whose hunches are never wrong. Neff provides the viewer with the film's story in ...

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The overwhelming view of sex in this era, at least publicly, was that of a tool used for procreation not recreation. ... In light of this decision, the Supreme Court found it then necessary to define "obscenity" and to distinguish it from the portrayal of sex. ... Brennan writes: "sex and obscenity are not synonymous Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. ... "# Although, here, the court does give some leeway in the interpretation of obscenity and sex, the decision nevertheless, reveals the sexually repressed views of the era. Perhap...

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YOU can join my military, receive benefits AND love the same sex!... The author barely included stories from the lesbians in the armed forces but before considering this a bias I understand the fact that "identifying lesbians was not an easy task" (32) and that you could not tell them apart from the other women most of the time. ... It would also be interesting to read about the military officials that ended up changing their minds towards their GI's after fighting with them in combat and seeing that their strength and patriotism was not hindered by them loving the same sex. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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