Моделът на жената обект в кинематографичния и в литературния жанр ноар
The Model Of The Woman Object In The Cinematographic And Literature Noir Genre

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present a theoretical model of the process of female objectification in film noir and attempt to apply the same (despite its singularity) to several works of fiction in two artistic fields, i.e. cinema and literature. Based upon the theoretical framework of feminist film critic, Laura Mulvey, the model lists some of the factors contributing to the placement of “woman” at the other end of a binary opposition with “man” (the protagonist) and goes on to explore two possible case scenarios for the process of female objectification in the noir genre. Making use of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic terms and concepts, the proposed model examines 1) the acts of active and narcissistic scopophilia as normal byproducts of the process of viewing a motion picture; as well as 2) the occurrence of a fetishistic or voyeuristic inclination as the result of an activated castration complex in the face of the protagonist, and hence – the viewer. In the final, analytical part of this study the model is put to the test against two works of literary fiction, namely Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to Be Murder” and Edogawa Ranpo’s novel “Black Lizzard”, and their respective film renderings by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Fukasaku Kinji. Some preliminary conclusions are made with regard to the applicability of a singular theoretical model to a number of artistic works of the same genre.

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