Tech-Noir Film A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres
Intellect, 2011.
In this study, I propose that tech-noir is the most recent of several popular genres that have dominated Western culture over the past two hundred and fifty years and as such indicates a fascination with the Prometheus myth as a narrative prototype. I show that an emphasis on different fields of discourse has led to the development of new popular genres, such that an emphasis on psychology is linked to the development of gothic fiction, sociology to detective fiction, science to science fiction, and aesthetics to tech-noir. Emily E. Auger
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