... to the screen. Loy and Powell's star personae were remodeled to build on the film's success. The Thin Man was one of the films of 1934 that marked the emergence of the new comic style. Although Nick and Nora display screwball traits, the film's plot revolves around a murder mystery, rather than...

... in writing is traced via Jacques Derrida’s notion of the trait, that stroke or feature crucially linked to the gaze, which marks the space between the visible and invisible. The chapter proposes that this quality makes Pettibon’s work reducible to neither the discourse of language nor...